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)