This protocol is utilized by Eudora, Netscape, and other E-mail programs. A protocol that allows a computer to use a regular telephone line and a modem to make a network connection and thus be a node on the Internet . This type of connection is nessary to use Netscape, Eudora and many other programs. New standards are proposed and published on line, as a Request For Comments. The Internet Engineering Task Force facilitates discussion, and eventually produces a new standard, e.g. the official standard for e-mail is RFC 822.
Routers spend all their time directing packets on their way across the Internet.
The term can refer to a particular piece of software, such as a WWW server, or to the machine on which the software is running, e.g., the mail server is down today, that's why e-mail isn't getting out. A single server machine could have several different server software packages running on it, thus providing many different servers to clients on the network . A new standard for very high-speed data transfer. The method by which mail is accepted and saved until you choose to download and read it. Sending copies of the same message to large numbers of newsgroups on the Internet or sending unsolicited commercial e-mail.