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Online services

Any business that provides its subscribers with a wide variety of data transmitted over telecommunications lines, an infrastructure in which they can communicate with one another as well as the means to connect with an almost unlimited number of third-party information providers.

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snail mail

Software; Email

postal mail.

soft bounce

Software; Email

Email sent to an active (live) email address but which is turned away before being delivered. Often, the problem is temporary -- the server is down or the recipient's mailbox is ...

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 ...

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 ...

spamcop

Software; Email

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

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.

spoofing

Software; Email

The practice of changing the sender's name in an email message so that it looks as if it came from another address.