Module 4

Message A single e-mail communication, generally limited to
Net one page.
Synonymous with the Internet. A worldwide network
Netiquette of computers communicating in a common language
Network via telephone lines or microwave links. Home of the
World Wide Web.
Network E-mail etiquette. The dos and don’ts of cyberspace.
Passive Voice A hardware and/or software combination that connects
two or more computers and enables them to share
Priority and/or transfer data.
Administrator Person responsible for operating and
Recipient maintaining a computer network.
The subject of the verb is the receiver, not the doer, of
Redundant the action. Example: The off-color e-mail message
Modifier [object] was sent by the bitter ex-employee [subject as
passive receiver] upon her termination.
Designates an e-mail message’s importance as high,
normal, or low. Gives the reader an indication of how
quickly the message should be opened and acted upon.
The receiver, or reader, of an e-mail message.
Recipients include intended and hidden, or unintended,
readers.
A word that means the same thing as the word it
modifies. For example, completely dead, absolutely
certain, totally full.

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Redundant Pairs Words that are commonly paired for no good reason.
Examples: each and every, here and now, one and
Renting only.
Reply The illegal practice of renting software without
Salutation permission of the copyright holder.
Sexist Language The response to an e-mail message.
Shareware The greeting that appears at the beginning of an e-mail
message.
Signature Indicates a male or female bias.
Software that is passed out freely for evaluation
Signature File purposes only. The evaluation period is typically 30
Smileys days.vii
A personal identifier that appears at the end of an e-
Snail Mail mail message. May include the writer’s name,
company name, street address, phone number, and a
hyperlink to the organization’s Web site.
A predefined signature that can be inserted at the end
of an e-mail message.
Electronic symbols of emotion, also called
“emoticons,” For example, the symbol :] indicates the
writer is smiling.
Using the postal service to mail letters the good old-
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Social When hackers use human error to their benefit. It
Engineering could involve a hacker talking an employee out of a
password. Or it could be dumpster diving, rooting
Softlifting through trash containers for information to enable the
hacker to crack the organization’s computer system.
Software In the workplace, softlifting occurs when extra copies
Software Piracy of software are made for employees to take home,
Spam and/or extra copies are made for the office. If you
Spell checker purchase software with a single-user license, then load
Spoofing it on multiple computers or servers, you are guilty of
“softloading.”viii
Subject Line Computer programs, such as those for e-mail or word
Traditional processing.
Correspondence The unauthorized use of software.
Unsolicited electronic junk mail.
The computer application that checks a document’s
spelling.
Faking e-mail addresses and Web pages to get users to
reveal passwords, credit card information, or other
critical data.
The topic of an e-mail message.
Nonelectronic writing.

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Unbundling Separating software from the products with which it

was intended to be bundled or sold. Unscrupulous

software distributors sometimes sell at a discount

software that has been unbundled. If a deal seems too

good to be true, it probably is.ix

Virus An infectious computer bug that it typically spread

through e-mail attachments and illegal, unlicensed

software. Symptoms range from mild to deadly.

Warez Pirated or illegal software. In general, the standard in

the Internet community is to make plural words

describing illegal activity using the letter z instead of s.

Software or sites labeled as warz usually contain

illegal material and should be avoided and reported.x

Webzine A Web site that publishes original content.

Work Station The computer that sits atop an employee’s desk. A

Computer desktop computer.

World Wide Web A global online information source of interconnected

[www] data. Also called the Web.

Zine A small, inexpensive, self-published, online document.

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