Swapper
The scene's postal distribution arm — the member who mailed disks of cracks, demos and mags around the world before the net.
Before modems and the internet, all scene material travelled by post. The swapper's job was to stuff envelopes with disks, maintain a long contact list, and forward the week's releases to fellow swappers in a dozen countries. The faster a crack spread, the more status for the group — so speed was measured in days from release to delivery.
The craft had its tricks: reusable stamps treated with glue or soap, disks taped flat to escape the letter scale, coded address lists. The role faded once BBSes and then the internet turned distribution into a file transfer, but the swapper's web of contacts was the very backbone of the pre-net scene.