< 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 .
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(1995-03-10)