Natural SEO SEM Email Glossary
Email stands for Electronic Mail. It is probably the most common form of communication on the Web.
Forums, Chat Rooms and Social Media websites are growing in popularity with the Web 2.0 growth. But email remains as an everyday informal method of keeping in touch with your friends, customers and potential customers. In fact, email marketing is often the primary form of marketing that many ecommerce businesses make.
So it is important that a general understanding be gained about email. It could present a great opportunity for you to supplement your Natural SEO and Natural SEM effort.
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Email Glossary
MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. An Internet messaging standard that lets users exchange email messages or attachments like photos, video, software or sound. MIME type examples include: text/plain, text/html, image/gif, image/jpg.
Mixmaster
A Type Two anonymous remailer which resends messages, and reorders them, in fixed size packages to prevent anyone watching the messages enter and depart from tracing them.
Mozilla
The company that provides the Firefox browser and the Thunderbird email client.
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MIME. An extensible mechanism for email.
Munging
Altering an email address on a webpage to make it unreadable to bots and harvesters that crawl the Web for email addresses to include on spam lists. Munging is where the email address is not fully written out but is still understandable to anyone reading the webpage. The characters to the left of the @ symbol in the email address should not be altered when munging.
Murkogram
Commercial spam that includes a disclaimer stating that the message cannot be considered spam because it is in compliance with government regulations.
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Natural SEO SEM hopes that you find this Email Terms Glossary useful in understanding the Internet - and your place in it.