"the U.S. Postal Service delivers the ""mail"". The term ""email"" (short for """"e""lectronic ""mail"""") first appeared in the 1970s. The term ""snail-mail"" is a retronym to distinguish it from the quicker email. Various dates have been given for its first use. ""Post"" is derived from Medieval French ""poste"", which ultimately stems from the past participle of the Latin verb ""ponere"" (""to lay down or place""). The practice of communication by written documents carried by an intermediary from one person or place to another almost certainly dates back nearly to the invention of writing. However, development of formal postal systems occurred"
"letters to suppress files, websites, and even numbers. Instead of being suppressed, the information receives extensive publicity and media extensions such as videos and spoof songs, often being widely mirrored on the Internet or distributed on file-sharing networks. Mike Masnick of Techdirt coined the term in 2005 in relation to a holiday resort issuing a takedown notice to urinal.net (a site dedicated to photographs of urinals) over use of the resort's name. The term alluded to Barbra Streisand, who had sued photographer Kenneth Adelman and Pictopia.com for violation of privacy. The US$50 million lawsuit endeavored to remove an aerial photograph"
"Ground"" or ""Commercial Parcel Select"") remains available. Alternatives to international surface mail include: <section end=USA/> Surface mail Surface mail, also known as sea mail, is mail that is transported by land and sea (along the ""surface"" of the earth), rather than by air, as in airmail. Surface mail is significantly less expensive but slower than airmail, and thus is preferred for large or heavy, non-urgent items and is primarily used for sending packages, not letters. The term ""surface mail"" arose as a retronym (retrospective term), following the development of airmail – a term was needed to describe traditional mail, for"
"Surface mail Surface mail, also known as sea mail, is mail that is transported by land and sea (along the ""surface"" of the earth), rather than by air, as in airmail. Surface mail is significantly less expensive but slower than airmail, and thus is preferred for large or heavy, non-urgent items and is primarily used for sending packages, not letters. The term ""surface mail"" arose as a retronym (retrospective term), following the development of airmail – a term was needed to describe traditional mail, for which purpose ""surface mail"" was coined. A more recent example of the same process is"
"ordinary Brit"". Stephen Fry in August 2013 said Dacre ""decries indecency on one page and pushes his male readers"" into looking at ""a semi-nude actress on another. His cancer scare, miracle cure stories are sickeningly anti-science and the only good thing to be said about his ""Mail"" is that no one decent or educated believes in it"". Dacre defended himself against his critics in October 2013 decrying the existence of ""an unpleasant intellectual snobbery about the ""Mail"" in leftish circles, for whom the word 'suburban' is an obscenity. They simply cannot comprehend how a paper that opposes the mindset they"
"not routinely saved. Many people prefer to receive paper letters, gaining the satisfaction of seeing their name carefully printed on a thick envelope in the letterbox. Using postal mail, it is possible to trade coupons, swap slips, postcards, stamps and anything else light and flat enough to fit inside an envelope, often called ""tuck-ins"". Many penpallers like to trade sheets of stickers, notecards and stationery sets. While the expansion of the Internet has reduced the number of traditional penpals, penpal clubs can nowadays be found on the Internet, in magazine columns, newspapers, and sometimes through clubs or special interest groups."
"Banded mail Banded mail is a neologism, coined in the 19th century, describing a type of composite armor formed by combining the concepts behind the Roman ""lorica segmentata"" with splint mail. Its historicity is doubtful. It has become entrenched in the popular consciousness as a result of its inclusion in the armor list for ""Dungeons & Dragons"". Confusion arises because of the wide variety of terms by which similar armors are known. Banded mail has been described as ""a form of mail reinforced with bands of leather"", as ""overlapping horizontal strips of laminated metal sewn over a backing of normal"
"point on. The term ""retronym"", a neologism composed of the combining forms ""retro-"" + ""-nym"", was coined by Frank Mankiewicz in 1980 and popularized by William Safire in ""The New York Times Magazine"". In 2000 ""The American Heritage Dictionary"" (4th edition) became the first major dictionary to include the word ""retronym"". Retronym A retronym is a newer name for an existing thing that differentiates the original form or version from a more recent one. It is thus a word created to differentiate between two types, whereas previously (before there were two types) no clarification was required. Advances in technology are"
"snail paced mails"". The term ""snail mail"" appears as early as 1942 in the headline of a news article about slow mail delivery. The term also appears as a sub-headline in a 1951 news article. CAB Informed About Isolation of Youngstown and Columbus; p. 2; ""Youngstown Vindicator""; February 21, 1951]</ref> The term ""snail post"" has much earlier usage, as in an article published 1843, in ""Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country"" (page 656). This was a humorous British reference to the German 'Schnell (fast) Post', which was notoriously slow. The term ""snail mail"" was used by the U.S. Post Office"
"Aerogram An aerogram, aérogramme, air letter or airletter is a thin lightweight piece of foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter for transit via airmail, in which the letter and envelope are one and the same. Most postal administrations forbid enclosures in these light letters, which are usually sent abroad at a preferential rate. Printed warnings existed to say that an enclosure would cause the mail to go at the higher letter rate. The use of the term ""aerogramme"" was officially endorsed at the 1952 Universal Postal Union Postal Union Congress in Brussels. Thereafter, the term ""air letter"" quickly"
"only those in the pay of the lumber companies would be anti-spam. The rationale was based in disclaimers in certain spam messages that they were using electronic means in order to save paper. The joke eventually led to a club and numerous parody websites, most of which have long since disappeared. Gatherings of anti-spammers on Usenet began to ridicule proponents of this theory, and many participants in news.admin.net-abuse.email chose to dub themselves as members of ""the Lumber Cartel"" in their signatures, followed immediately by the acronymic disclaimer ""TinLC"" (There is no Lumber Cartel), reminiscent of the There Is No Cabal"
"The aerogram, also written aérogramme, aerogramme, or airletter, also made from a lightweight paper, is the modern equivalent of the WWII lettersheet and most postal operators issue them prepaid, though Ireland, New Zealand and Rhodesia have issued them without an indicium requiring the addition of a postage stamp before mailing. The Universal Postal Union adopted the term ""aérogramme"", the French word for air letter, during the 1951–52 13th Postal Union Congress held in Brussels and all countries inscribe this on their air mail lettersheets except for the United Kingdom which still uses the term ""Air Letter"". Not all lettersheets are"
"Between July and December 2013 it had an average daily readership of approximately 3.951 million, of whom approximately 2.503 million were in the ABC1 demographic and 1.448 million in the C2DE demographic. Its website has more than 100 million unique visitors per month. The ""Daily Mail"" has been widely criticised for its unreliability, as well as printing of sensationalist and inaccurate scare stories of science and medical research, and for copyright violations. The ""Mail"" was originally a broadsheet but switched to a compact format on 3 May 1971, the 75th anniversary of its founding. On this date it also absorbed"
"many unintended corrections, such as ""prreviewent"" (prevalent), ""reviewuation"" (evaluation) and ""medireview"" (medieval). When asked about these changes, Yahoo! explained that the changed words were common terms used in web scripting, and were blacklisted to prevent hackers from sending damaging commands via the program's HTML function. Starting before February 7, 2006, Yahoo! Mail ended the practice, and began to add an underscore as a prefix to certain suspicious words and word fragments. Incoming mail to Yahoo! addresses can be subjected to deferred delivery as part of Yahoo's incoming spam controls. This can delay delivery of mail sent to Yahoo! addresses without"
"in magazine advertising in the mid to late 1960s to encourage use of zip codes. Ads for zip code use appeared in many issues of ""LOOK"", ""Life"", and the ""Saturday Evening Post"" magazines and displayed a caricature of a large snail outfitted as a letter carrier, with the term ""Snail Mail"" in bold lettering. The term appears in a Russell Baker humor column about the slow speed of the U.S. Postal Service in 1969. In 1974, the term was used to describe second-class mail, which took longer to arrive than first-class mail. In the sense of contrasting it with electronic"
"the term snail mail (to refer to physical mail, be it transported by surface or air), following the development of email. The Israel Postal Company () offers international surface mail (known as ""sea and land mail,"" (). <section begin=USA /> In 2007, the US Postal Service discontinued its outbound international surface mail (""sea mail"") service, mainly because of increased costs. Returned undeliverable surface parcels had become an expensive problem for the USPS. The discontinuation has been criticized by independent booksellers, by other small businesses which ship internationally, by the Peace Corps, and by military personnel. Domestic surface mail (now ""Retail"
"was recorded even though they had handled such non-disinfected leper mail for years. Irradiated mail is a form of disinfected mail adopted in the United States, in response to the 2001 anthrax attacks. Disinfected mail Disinfected mail or fumigated mail is mail that has had some form of disinfection or fumigation applied to it by postal authorities, with the intention of preventing the spread of epidemics via letters sent from infected areas. The usual practice was to puncture the envelope with small holes, often in a grid pattern, or to snip off one or more corners, in order to let"
"Email spam Email spam, also known as junk email, is unsolicited messages sent in bulk by email (spamming). Most email spam messages are commercial in nature. Whether commercial or not, many contain disguised links that appear to be for familiar websites but in fact lead to phishing web sites or sites that are hosting malware. Spam email may also include malware as scripts or other executable file attachments (trojans). Spam is named after Spam luncheon meat by way of a Monty Python sketch in which Spam is ubiquitous, unavoidable and repetitive. Email spam has steadily grown since the early 1990s."
"mail is used at some point during the process of communication, the sending of chain letters is often prohibited by the terms of service and/or user agreements of many email providers, and can result in an account being suspended or revoked. Make Money Fast Make Money Fast (stylised as MAKE.MONEY.FAST) is a title of an electronically forwarded chain letter which became so infamous that the term is now used to describe all sorts of chain letters forwarded over the Internet, by e-mail spam or Usenet newsgroups. In anti-spammer slang, the name is often abbreviated ""MMF"". The original ""Make Money Fast"""
"being adopted to refer to unsolicited commercial electronic mail sent to a large number of addresses, in what was seen as drowning out normal communication on the internet. The first known email spam (although not yet called that), was sent on May 1, 1978 to several hundred users on ARPANET. It was an advertisement for a presentation by Digital Equipment Corporation re their DECSYSTEM-20 products sent by Gary Thuerk, a marketer of theirs. The reaction to it was almost universally negative, and for a long time there were no further instances. The name ""spam"" was actually first applied, in April"
"a subtle, if not subterranean hint to the reader, a reminder of the ineradicable alienness of this biblically vengeful people"" and that ""those ready to acquit the Mail because there was no bald, outright statement of antisemitism were probably using the wrong measure."" In March 2015, James King, a former contract worker at the ""Mail's"" New York office, wrote an article for ""Gawker"" titled 'My Year Ripping Off the Web With the ""Daily Mail Online"". In the article, King alleged that the ""Mails"" approach was to rewrite stories from other news outlets with minimal credit in order to gain advertising"
"and the Internet, the concept of pseudonymity has a long history. In ancient literature it was common to write in the name of a famous person, not for concealment or with any intention of deceit; in the New Testament, the second letter of Peter is probably such. A more modern example is all of ""The Federalist Papers"", which were signed by Publius, a pseudonym representing the trio of James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay. The papers were written partially in response to several Anti-Federalist Papers, also written under pseudonyms. As a result of this pseudonymity, historians know that the"
"addressed by direct marketers by the use of individual ""opt-out"" lists, variable printing, and better-targeted list practices. Additionally, in order to avoid unwanted mailings, members of the marketing industry have established preference services that give customers more control over the marketing communications they receive in the mail. The term ""junk mail"", referring to unsolicited commercial ads delivered via post office or directly deposited in consumers' mail boxes, can be traced back to 1954. The term ""spam,"" meaning ""unsolicited commercial e-mail,"" can be traced back to March 31, 1993, although in its first few months it merely referred to inadvertently posting"
"a political screed relating to the Armenian Genocide. The first ""commercial"" Usenet spam, and the one which is often (mistakenly) claimed to be the first Usenet spam of any sort, was an advertisement for legal services entitled ""Green Card Lottery – Final One?"". It was posted on April 12, 1994, by Arizona lawyers Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel, and hawked legal representation for United States immigrants seeking papers (""green cards""). Usenet convention defines spamming as ""excessive multiple posting"", that is, the repeated posting of a message (or substantially similar messages). During the early 1990s there was substantial controversy among Usenet"
"immediately available. In contrast, L-Mail is designed for senders, enabling mail to go from an electronic form to conventional mail. Some online post offices will offer a send feature as a companion service. Sending mail electronically and having it printed close to the delivery point shortens the time it takes the correspondence to reach the recipient. Online post office An online post office is a commercial mail receiving agency that implements the concept of hybrid mail, enabling conventional mail to become electronic, or electronic correspondence to be printed and mailed at a remote location. As paper correspondence becomes inconvenient for"
"rows of round riveted rings and solid rings. By the 14th century, European mail makers stopped using solid rings and mail was made from wedge riveted rings only with no solid rings. By the late 15th century, the aventail had replaced the mail coif completely. An aventail is a curtain of mail which is attached to the skull of a helmet. The mail extends to cover the throat, neck and shoulders. For the word ""mail"", there are a variety of alternative spellings. This is common of an English word introduced from the French. Generally, the English spelling has been preferred,"
"to its members during 2003. In alphabetical order: Pills, porn and poker Pills, porn and poker, the so-called 3 Ps, are the most common forms of business which use E-mail spam and other forms of spamvertising. In many cases, these sites are of dubious legality and are often fronts for fraud. The ""pills"" sold are usually treatments of impotence, such as real or purported Viagra or Cialis tablets, to be delivered without prescription, although other prescription medicines are also advertised. Some pill advertisements suggest that they can offer penis enlargement. If the pills are actually delivered, they are typically counterfeit"
"pre-paid postage – see POSTNET), but many are now shipped in shrinkwrap to protect the loose contents of the magazine. During the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, newspapers and magazines were normally posted using wrappers with a stamp imprint. Hybrid mail, sometimes referred to as L-mail, is the electronic lodgement of mail from the mail generator’s computer directly to a Postal Service provider. The Postal Service provider is then able to use electronic means to have the mail piece sorted, routed and physically produced at a site closest to the delivery"
"vanity press. Vanity academic journals also exist, often called bogus journals, which will publish with little or no editorial oversight (although they may claim to be peer reviewed). For example, one such bogus journal (""International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology"") accepted for publication a paper called ""Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List"" which, apart from a couple of headings and references, consists of the sentence ""Get me off your fucking mailing list."" repeated many times. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it was common for authors, if they could afford it, to pay the costs of publishing their"
"Lumber Cartel The Lumber Cartel was a facetious conspiracy theory popularized on USENET that claimed anti-spammers were secretly paid agents of lumber companies. In November 1997, a participant on news.admin.net-abuse.email posted an essay to the newsgroup. The essay described a conspiracy theory: The reasoning provided in the essay was that certain companies first destroy forests and make paper out of them, which is in turn used to send bulk mail. Since sending e-mail spam does not use paper at all, the essay argued, the lumber companies would want to stop it before it would surpass paper-based bulk mailing, and consequently"
"letter, even though carbon paper is no longer used to make the copies. An alternative etymology is that ""c:"" was used for copy and ""cc:"" indicates the plural, just as ""p."" means page and ""pp."" means pages. This alternative etymology explains the frequent usage of ""c:"" when only one recipient is listed, while ""cc:"" is used for two or more recipients of the copies. This etymology can also explain why, even originally, ""cc:"" was used to list recipients who received typed copies and not necessarily carbon copies. The term ""carbon copy"" can denote anything that is a near duplicate of"
"and resulted in a flurry of lawsuits involving Pitney Bowes among others. The advent of e-mail in the late 1990s appeared to offer a substantial threat to the postal service. By 2008 letter-post service operators were reporting significantly smaller volumes of letter-post, specifically stamped envelopes, which they attributed mainly to replacement by e-mail. Although a corresponding reduction in the volume of envelopes required would have been expected, no such decrease was reported as widely as the reduction in letter-post volumes. Although, with regards to e-mail developments, there is a substantial threat of ""technology replacing tradition"". This is offset by the"
"its for-profit direct-mail provider, Communications Corporation of America, sought to influence United States foreign policy by promoting the idea, but after the Soviet collapse of 1991 ASCF fell into obscurity while other organizations continued to promote the slogan. The Heritage Foundation and the Center for Security Policy (CSP) have also used the term in print. The ASCF registered a trademark for the phrase in April 2011. In September 2012, ASCF filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against CSP and Frank Gaffney, prompting the ""Washington City Paper"" to ridicule ASCF's Director of Operations, Gary James, for editing the online encyclopedia Wikipedia article"