Friday, July 8, 2011

IT Glossary

Address Munging
Address Munging is the process of modifying an e-mail address to make it invalid, in such a way that a legitimate reader can put it back together again. This technique is used to hide (valid) e-mail addresses from e-mail harvesters (and thus reduce the likelihood of receiving spam).

ASDL
 Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line. Provides a permanent link to the internet.

Backup Mail Server
A secondary email server to which emails are delivered when the primary email server be offline. A backup email server will then forward emails to the primary email server once the primary email server comes back on-line.

Bluetooth
An industrial standard for low power, short range, radio communication between devices. Bluetooth is used to allow mobile phones, computers, PDAs and the like to communicate across short distances, i.e. providing a personal area network (PAN).