tourist
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)