A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a netwORk from a remote location fORcomm 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)