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English Dictionary: spod by the DICT Development Group
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From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   spod n.   [UK] 1. A lower form of life found on {talker system}s
   and {MUD}s.   The spod has few friends in {RL} and uses talkers
   instead, finding communication easier and preferable over the net.
   He has all the negative traits of the {computer geek} without having
   any interest in computers per se.   Lacking any knowledge of or
   interest in how networks work, and considering his access a
   God-given right, he is a major irritant to sysadmins, clogging up
   lines in order to reach new MUDs, following passed-on instructions
   on how to sneak his way onto Internet ("Wow!   It's in America!") and
   complaining when he is not allowed to use busy routes.   A true spod
   will start any conversation with "Are you male or female?" (and
   follow it up with "Got any good numbers/IDs/passwords?") and will
   not talk to someone physically present in the same terminal room
   until they log onto the same machine that he is using and enter talk
   mode.   Compare {newbie}, {tourist}, {weenie}, {twink}, {terminal
   junkie}, {warez d00dz}.   2. A {backronym} for "Sole Purpose, Obtain a
      Degree"; according to some self-described spods, this term is used
   by indifferent students to condemn their harder-working fellows.
   Compare the defiant adoption of the term `geek' in the mid-1990s by
   people who would previously have been stigmatized by it (see
   {computer geek}). 3. [obs.] An ordinary person; a {random}.   This is
   the meaning with which the term was coined, but the inventor informs
   us he has himself accepted sense 1.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   spod
  
      (Great Britain) A lower form of life found on {chat}
      systems and {MUD}s.   The spod has few friends in {RL} and uses
      chat instead, finding communication easier and preferable over
      the {net}.   He has all the negative traits of the {computer
      geek} without having any interest in computers per se.
      Lacking any knowledge of, or interest in, how networks work,
      and considering his access a God-given right, he is a major
      irritant to {sysadmins}, clogging up lines in order to reach
      new {MUD}s, following passed-on instructions on how to sneak
      his way onto {Internet} ("Wow!   It's in America!") and
      complaining when he is not allowed to use busy routes.   A true
      spod will start any conversation with "Are you male or
      female?" (and follow it up with "Got any good
      numbers/IDs/passwords?") and will not talk to someone
      physically present in the same terminal room until they log
      onto the same computer that he is using and enter {chat}.
  
      Compare {newbie}, {tourist}, {weenie}, {twink}, {terminal
      junkie}, {dweeb}.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1998-01-18)
  
  
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