 | Electronic mail, abbreviated e-mail or email,
is a method of composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic
communication systems. For additional information see the following:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail |
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MIME - Short for Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions, a specification for formatting non-ASCII messages so that they
can be sent over the Internet. Many e-mail clients now support MIME, which
enables them to send and receive graphics, audio, and video files via the
Internet mail system. In addition, MIME supports messages in character sets
other than ASCII. |
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RTF - The Rich Text Format is a document
file format that has been continually developed by Microsoft since 1987 for
cross-platform document interchange. Most word processors are able to read and
write RTF documents. Unlike most of the word processing formats, RTF is
human-readable. |
| E-mail filtering is the processing of
electronic mail to organize it according to specified criterion. Most often
this refers to the automatic processing of incoming messages. E-mail
filtering has several benefits and criticisms. For incoming mail, filtering is
performed to:
 | eliminate the sending and receipt of unsolicited emails
and computer viruses. |
| move e-mails for efficient access |
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automatically reply to emails,
notifying the sender that their message has been received successfully.
Common autoresponders are the out of office reply and vacation message. |
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| E-mail attachment (or email attachment) is a file which is
sent along with an e-mail message. In MIME, the standard format of e-mail
messages, attaching a file to a message is accomplished by encoding both the
original message and the file to be attached in a multipart message. |
| Electronic mailing lists (such
as yahoogroups) are a special usage of e-mail that allows for widespread
distribution of information to many Internet users. Software is installed on a
computer which processes incoming email messages, and, depending on their
content, either acts on them internally or distributes the message to all
users subscribed to the mailing list. |
| GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a
bitmap
image format that is widely used on the
World Wide Web, both for still
images and for
animations.
The format was introduced in 1987 by
CompuServe in order to provide a color image format for their file
downloading areas, replacing their earlier RLE format which was black and
white only. |
| JPEG is a commonly used standard method of
compressing photographic images. The most common file extensions for this
format are .jpeg, .jfif, .jpg, .JPG, or .JPE although .jpg is the most common
on all platforms. The name stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group. |
| HTML - In computing,
HyperText Markup Language is a
markup language designed for the creation of
web pages and other information viewable in a
browser. HTML is used to structure information -- denoting certain text as
headings, paragraphs, lists and so on -- and can be used to define the
semantics of a document. |
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