mail bomb

Technical Term

An e-mail message with huge binary files included, sent with the intent to crash the recipients mailserver or mailreader. Mail bombing is a form of electronic harrassment which is one step beyond flaming, and can on many systems result in the cancellation of the bomber's account.

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MAPI

Messaging Application Programming Interface - A system built into Microsoft Windows that enables different e-mail applications to work together to distribute mail. As long as both applications are MAPI-enabled, they can share mail messages with each other.

MAPI has a history that might cause confusion due to the fact that there are two very different kinds of MAPI. First, there was MAPI in the days of Microsoft Mail (MS-Mail). That MAPI was a C-language API which allowed programmable access to the features of Microsoft Mail. Nowadays that MAPI is called "Simple MAPI". The "new MAPI" is a COM/OLE-based set of interfaces of rather high complexity, sometimes called "Extended MAPI" or XMAPI. Extended MAPI actually includes Simple MAPI for compatibility with older software. In addition, it includes OLE Messaging, which is a set of OLE Automation interfaces to messaging, for use in Visual Basic and the like.

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MediaCast

Net Company

MediaCast uses the latest in broadcast technology to deliver live and archival musical events over the World Wide Web. Depending on your specific type of connection to the Internet, you will want to make sure your system is configured appropriately for a combination of these technologies.

MediaCast is a collaboration between Media Synergy and WildCast. Media Synergy brings their expertise in on-location video, audio, and photographic capturing and archiving. The Internet and multicast technology is supplied by WildCast, whose principal members performed the technology behind the majority of all music Internet multicasts.

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