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Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks.

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Solo mailing

Software; Email

A one-time broadcast to an email list, separate from regular newsletters or promotions, and often including a message from an outside advertiser or a special promotion from the list owner.

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.

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