Natural SEO SEM Email Glossary
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Email Glossary
Subject Line
A brief phrase conveying the contents of an email to a recipient.
Subscriber
aka List Member. A member of a mailing list.
Tarpitting
The practice, which is usually ineffective and sometimes dangerous, of attempting to starve the resources of a spammer or hacker by holding open a connection until it times out.
Teergrube
A server with intentionally slow processing for the purpose of trapping spammers using address harvesting programs.
Third-Party Mail Relay
Email message sent through a mail server that has neither the sender nor recipient as a user.
Thunderbird
An email client made by Mozilla.
Tracking
The control, organization and updating of the results of an email marketing campaign.
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TCP/IP. The standard networking protocol for transmission and routing of digital information on the Internet. It enables the communications between different types of computers and networks.
UBE
Unsolicited Bulk Email. The formal term for spam.
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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.