tourist
<jargon> A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over
a network from a remote location for comm mode, electronic mail, games and other
trivial purposes. A tourist is one step below a luser.
Hackers often spell this turist, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with
luser (this also expresses the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms).
Compare twink, read-only user.
[Jargon File]
(1995-03-10)
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