Online services

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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list management

Software; Email

How a mailing list is set up, administered and maintained. The list manager has daily responsibility over list operation, including processing subscribes and unsubscribes, bounce ...

list owner

Software; Email

The organization or individual who has gathered a list of email addresses. Ownership does not necessarily imply "with permission."

list rental

Software; Email

The process in which a publisher or advertiser pays a list owner to send its messages to that list. Usually involves the list owner sending the message's on the advertiser's ...

list sale

Software; Email

The actual purchase of a mailing list along with the rights to mail it directly. Permission can only be "sold" if the subsequent mailings continue to match the frequency, brand ...

mail bomb

Software; Email

An orchestrated attempt to shut down a mail server by sending more messages than it can handle in a short period of time. See DOS.

mail exchange (MX) record

Software; Email

A mail exchanger record (MX record) is a type of resource record in the Domain Name System that specifies a mail server responsible for accepting email messages on behalf of a ...

mail loop

Software; Email

A communication error between two email servers, usually happening when a misconfigured email triggers an automated response from the recipient server.