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read-only user n.
Describes a luser who uses computers almost exclusively for reading USENET, bulletin boards, and/or email, rather than writing code or purveying useful information. See twink, terminal junkie, lurker.
--The Jargon File version 3.0.0, ed. ESR, previously autonoded by rescdsk.
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