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Glossary

Chat room: A chat room is a location on the Internet where communication can take place in Ïreal time.Ó When you've logged on to a chat room, everything you type appears on the screens of everyone else who is at that Internet location to participate in that particular chat. Each participant's statements are labeled with a nickname to identify who is talking. Participants choose their own nicknames and often decide against sharing their real names, either to preserve anonymity or to take on a new persona. Chat rooms are usually organized around a particular topic and provide a place to ÏmeetÓ people who share similar interests.

Flaming: Originally, this term meant to express oneself in an e-mail or post to an online discussion in a passionate manner in the spirit of honorable debate. Flaming well was an art form. More recently, flame has come to refer to any kind of derogatory or mean-spirited comment. A Ïflame warÓ occurs when an online discussion degenerates into a series of personal attacks against the debaters, rather than discussion of their positions.

Internet: The vast collection of interconnected networks that all use the TCP/IP protocols and that evolved from the Arpanet of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Together, the Internet gives access to websites on the World Wide Web, email, listservs, and other forms of electronic communication and transmittal of data.Ü

Listserv: The most common kind of emailing list, ÏListservÓ is actually a registered trademark of L-Soft International, a software firm that developed one of the most popular mailing-list packages. The word, usually with a lowercase l, has now come to refer to any group mailing list that a user can join to receive or post messages to other members of the group.

Spamming: An inappropriate use of a mailing list, listserv, or other networked communications facility to send the same message to a large number of people who didn't ask for it. The term may come from some Internet users' low opinion of the food product with the same name or from a Monty Python skit in which the word ÏspamÓ is used repeatedly.