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. 3.
   [Glasgow University] An otherwise competent hacker who spends way too
   much time on talker systems. 4. [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.


Source: The Jargon File