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Mailgroups

A mailgroup is an email address that redirects to multiple email addresses. - read more

Mailing list

On the Internet, a group of people who share a common interest and who automatically receive all the mail posted to the listserver, or mailing-list manager program. Contributions are sent as e-mail to the listserver and then distributed to all subscribers. Most listserver programs include a comma ... - read more

Mailing Lists

Way to send e-mail automatically to many people on a regular basis. Most are organised around an area of interest. - read more

Megabit

Abbreviated Mbit. Usually 1,048,576 binary digits or bits of data. Often used as equivalent to 1 million bits. - read more

Megabyte

Abbreviated MB. Usually 1,048,576 bytes. Megabytes are a common way of representing computer memory or hard-disk capacity. - read more

Merchant Bank

Bank that has an agreement with a merchant to accept (acquire) deposits generated by bankcard transactions. - read more

Merchant ID

In the credit card industry, a merchant ID is a number provided to a merchant by a credit card processor when that merchant retains the services of that processor. Also sometimes called the merchant number. - read more

Meta Tag

An optional HTML tag that is used to specify information about a Web document. Some search engines such as AltaVista use 'spiders' to index Web pages. Their spiders read the information contained within a page META tag. So in theory an HTML or Web page author has the ability to control how ... - read more

Modem

A piece of hardware that lets a computer talk to another computer over a phone line. - read more

MySQL

MySQL is a relational database management system, which means it stores data in separate tables rather than putting all the data in one big area. This adds flexibility, as well as speed. The SQL part of MySQL stands for Structured Query Language which is the most common language used to access data ... - read more