Email

Email

Electronic communication using one of the accepted protocols.

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Spam

Software; Email

The popular name for unsolicited commercial email. However, some email recipients define spam as any email they no longer want to receive, even if it comes from a mailing list they joined ...

Spamcop

Software; Email

A blacklist and IP-address database, formerly privately owned but now part of the email vendor Ironport. Many ISPs cheque the IP addresses of incoming email against Spamcop's records to determine ...

Sponsorship swap

Software; Email

An agreement between email list owners, publishers or advertisers to sponsor each other's mailings or newsletters for free. See ad swap.

Text newsletter

Software; Email

Plain newsletter with words only, no colors, graphics, fonts or pictures; can be received by anyone who has email.

Thank-you page

Software; Email

Web page that appears after user has submitted an order or a form online. May be a receipt.

Throttling

Software; Email

The practise of regulating how many email message a broadcaster sends to one ISP or mail server at a time. Some ISPs bounce email if it receives too many messages from one sending address at a time.

Also known as transactive email. A creative format where the recipient can enter a transaction in the body of the email itself without clicking to a web page first. Transactions may be answering a ...