tourist

1. [ITS] A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for {comm mode}, email, games, and other trivial purposes. One step below {luser}. ITS hackers often used to spell this {turist}, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with {luser} (this usage may also have expressed the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms, and/or been some sort of tribute to Alan Turing). Compare {twink}, {lurker}, {read-only user}.
2. [IRC] An {IRC} user who goes from channel to channel without saying anything; see {channel hopping}.

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