HNG
Horny Net Geek -- a common internet term describing someone feverishly seeking online sexual kicks, but apparently lacking the necessary social skills. Results range from train-wreck hilarity to (more often, I'm afraid) screaming-baby irritation. Sometimes mistranslated as "Horny Net Guy", these doofs are a good reason for sensible women to avoid sexchat channels in IRC.
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MsGroove uses this term a lot to describe a sexually promiscuous woman. We're a sex-affirmative crowd here, so the term is not usually insulting. [Usage notes.]
netsplit
A netsplit occurs when one or more IRC servers stops talking to the rest of IRC. When this happens, the user sees many or most of the users quitting at once, perhaps leaving said user alone in the channel. If this happens to you, your options are:
- connect to another IRC server, or
- wait for the channel to come back
When DALnet was getting started, it was said there would be no netsplits -- this obviously was wrong. For what it's worth, Efnet and Undernet will probably always have netsplits, whereas DALnet is probably repairable. Yeah. Right.