Glossary cascade Series of >'s building up in a post. When you post a reply to a message and include parts of that message, the original lines show up with a > in front of them. If you reply to a reply, then you get a >> in front of the line. And if you reply to that reply, you get >>>. digest way to receive list messages in one large, usually daily, file. Contrast with each list message arriving individually, as a separate e mail. FAQ Frequently Asked Questions - refers to a question itself, and to a document associated with a list or news group that provides standard answers. flame a particularly nasty, personal attack on somebody for something he or she has written. An exchange of flames may erupt into a flame war. Sometimes wars go on for years, in which case they become "holy wars," usually on such topics as the relative merits of Macintoshes and IBMs. Every so often, a discussion gets so out of hand that somebody predicts that either the government will catch on and shut the whole thing down or somebody will sue to close down the network, or maybe even the wrath of God will smote everybody involved. Flame wars can be tremendously fun to watch at first. They quickly grow boring, though. And wait until the first time you're attacked! (adapted from Big Dummy's material.) gateway hooks a list to a news group (and has other meanings). Good Times Virus viruses are not distributed by reading e mail. The Good Times Virus warning is cyber folklore. list "A mailing list is a list of email addresses kept on one computer. A message directed to the list goes to that computer and this is automatically copied to everyone on the list."wired_women, p 116 LISTSERV MLM software ListProc MLM software listserv wrongly used generically to refer to MLM's loop software problem when e mail goes back and forth without knowing to stop because commands are cycling. Usually caused by self-references within posting; to be avoided. lurk read a list and not post or respond. maintainer software term for human being who manages the list software program for all the lists at a host site, also list maintainer. majordomo MLM software MLM Mailing List Manager - the software that handles the subscriptions to a list and the distribution of mail to subscribers. examples: LISTERV, majordomo, ListProc spam, spamming sending the same message to many address. Message is usually commercial and unwanted. Practice is criticized strongly. Analogous to junk mail and junk broadcast fax. subscribe software command used to join a list. Most subscriptions are free. owner, own software designation for human who manages a list generic: owner-@ example: owner-MADNESS@sjuvm.stjohns.edu signal to noise ratio "(T)he interesting or useful posts (signals) ... (compared to) the boring, repetitive, flaming or just plan useless posts (noise). wired_women, p 131 thread "Each message by a mailing list member spawns its own replies, a round-robin discussion that at times resembles a support group and at other times a graduate seminar." wired_women, p 116 URL Uniform Resource Locator - standardized address format Cherny, Lynn and Elizabeth Reba Weise, editors, wired_women: gender and new realities in cyberspace, Seal Press, 1996. C:\ListOwn\Packet\glossary.doc