Yahoo! Address Book Tutorials

Glossary

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A

  • Address Book: a listing of people and their email addresses associated with each Yahoo! Mail account.

B

  • Bcc: short for "blind carbon copy"; an email address in this field won’t be visible to any other recipients of the message.

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.
  • CC: short for "carbon copy"; use this field to add secondary recipients to an email message.
  • Compose: to enter the text of an email message.
  • Contact: a person with whom you interact; someone to whom you might want to send an email or instant message.

D

  • Distribution list: a group of contacts to whom you want to send the same email message. Yahoo! Mail Classic uses categories as distribution lists.
  • Domain: a set of Internet addresses, such as for a web site or email. On the Web, a domain is the part after "www." such as "my-domain.com".
  • Download: to transfer a file from a remote computer to your computer.

E

  • Email address: A contact's address that identifies an electronic location where email can be sent. An email address includes the contact's email name followed by the "@" followed by the contact's email domain, such as "person@domain.com".
  • Email domain: a set of Internet addresses, such as for a web site or email. In email addresses, a domain is the part after the "@", such as "my-domain.com".

L

  • List: a feature in earlier versions of Address Book that let you send an email message to a set of contacts. Now you can send email to a category instead of a list.

M

  • Mailing list: a group of contacts to whom you want to send the same email message. In Yahoo! Mail, a category includes mailing list capability.
  • Messenger ID: the Yahoo! ID a person uses to sign in and use Yahoo! Messenger.

N

  • Nickname: a shortcut to a person's email address.

P

  • PIM: a personal information management tool, such as your Yahoo! Address book, the Palm Pilot, and Microsoft Outlook.

S

  • Synchronize: to cause items in multiple locations to match exactly.

U

  • URL: Universal Resource Locator; specifies the location of a file or web page, such as http://my.yahoo.com.

XYZ

  • Yahoo! ID: the name by which a person is known to all Yahoo! networks.
  • Yahoo! Messenger: a web-based tool that lets you communicate using your voice, text, or other means with one or more people over the Internet in real time (instantly); text-based messages are sometimes referred to as "instant messenger" or "IM".