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| domain | the three letter code indicating whether the address is a business (.com), a non-profit (.org), a university (.edu), a branch of the government (.gov), a part of the military (.mil), and so on |
| flame | to send a harsh, critical e-mail message to another user; sometives denoted by all capital letters |
| IP | Internet Protocal--the method by which information is translated to and from computers and/or networks with different opeating systems |
| newsgroups | newsgroups are discussion groups on all kinds of topics on the Internet; these are not "real-time" discussions but a series of messages posted to the group |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol--the method by which information is "packeted" and sent from computer to computer |
| TCP/IP | the combination of TCP and IP that allows information to be transferred over the Internet regardless of computer type or operating system |
| URL types | http://--HTML documents; telnet://--Telnet site; ftp://--FTP site; gopher://--Gopher site |
| ascending | sorting information alphabetically or numerically from least to greatest |
| descending | sorting information alphabetically or numerically from greatest to least |
| field type | categories for fields; pop-up menu, radio button, check box, vaue list, serial number, record info, calculation, and summary |
| find | the procress used to locate the data stored in a database |
| formula | using operators to select specific information |
| mail merge | allows you to combine a word processor letter and a database to create form letters |
| match | using a formula to locate specific records |
