Sending e-mail ads to people whithout their consent.

Source: Sweeney, Susan

Email Marketing Services by Originet IBS Inc.

The transfer of a file from your computer to a server online.

Source: Sweeney, Susan

Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a technical, Web-related term used in two distinct meanings: in popular usage, it is a widespread synonym for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) — many popular and technical texts will use the term "URL" when referring to URI; strictly, the idea of a uniform syntax for global identifiers of network-retrievable documents was the core idea of the World Wide Web. In the early times, these identifiers were variously called "document names", "Web addresses" and "Uniform Resource Locators". These names were misleading, however, because not all identifiers were locators, and even for those that were, this was not their defining characteristic. Nevertheless, by the time the RFC 1630 formally defined the term "URI" as a generic term best suited to the concept, the term "URL" had gained widespread popularity, which has continued to this day.

Source: wikipedia.org

A system of discussion groups. Comments are passed amoung hundreds of thousands of machines, with over 10,000 discussion areas, called "newsgroups."

Source: Sweeney, Susan

A person with a unique address that enters or reenters a Web site each day (or some other specified period). A user session is sometimes determinded by counting only those users that haven't reetered the site within the past 20 minutes or a similar period. User session figures are sometimes used to indicate the number of visitors per day.

Source: Sweeney, Susan