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C

  • Category: a group of contacts in your Yahoo! Address Book. Categories let you send the same email to a group of people and let you organize information by groups.
  • Connection: definition of connection here
  • Contact: a person with whom you interact; someone to whom you might want to send an email, instant message, or text message.

D

  • Deleted Contacts: a system category that temporarily holds contacts deleted from Yahoo! Contacts.

S

  • Sign in: enter your Yahoo! ID and password to identify yourself to the network and to gain access to your personal information.
  • System category: a category packaged with Yahoo! Contacts that provides basic organization for your contacts (All Contacts, Unfiled, Connections, and Deleted Contacts).

U

  • User-defined category: a category in Yahoo! Contacts that you create to manage your contacts.

XYZ

  • Yahoo! Contacts: a listing of people and their email addresses associated with each Yahoo! Mail account; also known as Address Book.
  • Yahoo! ID: the name by which a person is known to all Yahoo! networks.
  • Yahoo! Messenger: an application that lets you communicate using your voice, text, or other means with one or more people over the Internet in real time (instantly).