re

Borrowed from Latin rē, ablative of rēs (“thing, matter, topic”).

Re A (conjoined twins) [2000] EWCA Civ 254

"I know it's been a long haul, but can we please not get complacent re: our annual magic gunk explosion? I can't believe I just typed those words."

2020 July 24, HarryBlank, “SCP-5243”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-09-02:

About, regarding, with reference to; especially in letters, documents, emails and case law.

فِي مَا يَخُصّ

fī mā yaḵuṣṣ


re

From Glover's solmization, from Middle English re (“second degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian re in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin resonāre (“made to resound”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

inh

(music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.


re

gg [good game], no re

(video games, slang) Clipping of rematch.

(marketing, branding) Clipping of reinsurance. (used in the branding of reinsurance company names)


attachment

en-noun

attachment (countable and uncountable, plural attachments)

From French attachement. By surface analysis, attach + -ment.

(computing) A file sent along with a message, usually an email.


ham

ham (countable and uncountable, plural hams)

Inherited from Middle English hamme, from Old English hamm (“inner or hind part of the knee, ham”), from Proto-Germanic *hamō, *hammō, *hanmō, from Proto-Indo-European *kónh₂m (“leg”).
Cognate with Dutch ham (“ham”), dialectal German Hamme (“hind part of the knee, ham”), dialectal Swedish ham (“the hind part of the knee”), Icelandic höm (“the ham or haunch of a horse”), Old Irish cnáim (“bone”), Ancient Greek κνήμη (knḗmē, “shinbone”). Compare gammon.

cog

(Internet, informal, uncommon) Electronic mail that is wanted; mail that is not spam or junk mail.


CC

en-noun

CC (countable and uncountable, plural CCs)

Alternative form: cc


CC

en-verb

CC (third-person singular simple present CCs, present participle CCing, simple past and past participle CCed)

CCs (present singular third-person)
CCing (participle present)
CCed (participle past)
CCed (past)

Alternative form: cc

Please email the file to me and CC it to my manager.

Please email me a summary and CC my manager too.

(Internet, transitive) Initialism of carbon copy.


CC

Creative Commons
Creative Commons#English


POP

(telecommunications) Acronym of point of presence.

One commonly used POP (persistent organic pollutant), organochlorine, may be responsible for contaminating the world's seafood supply, since pesticides can run off the land into streams, lakes, and reservoirs.

2009, Edward Group, Complete Colon Cleanse: The At-Home Detox Program to Restore Good Health, Boost Vitality, and Ensure Longevity, Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 91:

persistent organic pollutant
persistent organic pollutant#English

(environmental science) Acronym of persistent organic pollutant.


POP

Post Office Protocol
w:Post Office Protocol

(Internet) Acronym of Post Office Protocol.


POP

Acronym of post office preferred. (denoting a standard envelope size)


spam

en-noun

spam (countable and uncountable, plural spams)

The original sense (canned ham) is a proprietary name registered by Geo. A. Hormel & Co. in U.S., 1937. It is presumed to be a conflation of either "spiced ham" or "shoulder of pork and ham" but was soon extended to other kinds of canned meat. Hormel spells the trademarked name in all upper case.
The use for unsolicited and unwanted email derives from a Monty Python sketch (Flying Circus, Episode 25). In the 1970 sketch, a group of Vikings in a restaurant repeatedly chant the word "spam". The earliest recorded real-life use for this sense occurs around 1993 which finds reference in a newsgroup post dated March 31, 1993.
The term appears to have been used earlier in a different sense in relation to "Multi-User Dungeons" (MUDs), a kind of multi-user computer gaming environment before widespread use of the Internet, in the 1980s.

I get far too much spam.

I received 58 spams yesterday.

In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.

2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:

(uncountable, rarely countable, computing, Internet) Unsolicited bulk electronic messages.

An Act to provide for the control of spam, which is unsolicited commercial communications sent in bulk by electronic mail or by text or multi-media messaging to mobile telephone numbers, and to provide for matters connected therewith.

Long title, Spam Control Act (Cap. 311A, R. Ed. 2008)

(uncountable, computing, Internet) Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.


spam

en-verb

spam (third-person singular simple present spams, present participle spamming, simple past and past participle spammed)

spams (present singular third-person)
spamming (participle present)
spammed (participle past)
spammed (past)

(intransitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages.)

(transitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages) to a person or entity.

(transitive, intransitive, computing, Internet) To send messages repeatedly, often with disruptive effect; to flood.

Stop spamming that special attack!

Spam the Z key to get a speed boost.

(transitive, by extension, computing, video games) To do something rapidly and repeatedly.


draft

en-noun

draft (countable and uncountable, plural drafts)

A phonetic spelling of draught (compare laughter), from Middle English draught, draght (“that which is pulled; that which is drawn up, a design”), from Old English *dreaht, *dræht, from Proto-West Germanic *drahti, *drahtu, from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz (“a pulling, drawing”), equivalent to draw (“to draw, drag”) + -t. Cognate with Dutch dracht, German Tracht, Icelandic dráttur.

draught

British spelling of many senses, but not all

I have to revise the first draft of my term paper.

His first drafts were better than most authors' final products.

Dr Richard Beeching's handwritten draft of his report survives in the National Archives.

2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43:

(universal) An early version of a written work (such as a book or e-mail) or drawing.


webmail

en-noun

webmail (usually uncountable, plural webmails)

Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail are well-known webmail services.

A service for sending, receiving, and/or storing email, usually on a remote web server, in such a way that it is accessible through a web browser.


email

email (countable and uncountable, plural emails)

The noun is an abbreviation of electronic mail. The verb is derived from the noun, by analogy with mail (“to send through the mail”).

What’s your email?

In this system, your username is your email.

Don’t send personal messages to my work email.

ímélcím

now officially endorsed but still less common


forward

From Middle English foreward, from Old English foreweard (“forward, inclined to the front, fore, early, former”), from Proto-Germanic *fura- (“fore-”), *warþaz (“turned”), equivalent to fore + -ward. Cognate with Dutch voorwaarts (“forward”), German vorwärts (“forward”).

der

When you receive your new pen-pal's email address, do not automatically put it in your address book and use the email Addy to send 'forwards' to. Not every pen pal likes 'forwards', especially jokes and meaningless emails.

2004, Tamara Stevens, What Is Snail Mail?: The Lost Art of Letterwriting, page 27:

This method attaches the files to a new email, which is fine if you want to create a new email. The only problem with this is that it doesn't work if you'd rather send forwards or replies.

2009, Joli Ballew, Windows 7 for the Over 50s in Simple Steps:

(Internet) An e-mail message that is forwarded to another recipient or recipients; an electronic chain letter.


bounce

en-noun

bounce (countable and uncountable, plural bounces)

From Middle English bounsen, bunsen (“to beat, thump”), cognate with Scots bunce, bonce (“to bounce”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps imitative, related to bump, or related to Middle English bonchen (“to pound, beat”) and Dutch bonken (“to bump”).
Compare Saterland Frisian bumzje (“to pound, bang, bounce”), West Frisian bûnzje (“to throb, bounce, pulsate”), Dutch bonzen (“to thump, knock, throb, bounce”), German Low German bunsen, bumsen (“to beat, bounce”), German bumsen (“to thud, bang, pound”).

unc

uncertain

onomatopoeic

imitative

cog

(Internet) An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.


electronic mail

en-noun

electronic mail (countable and uncountable, plural electronic mails)

Electronic mail is the single most visible application of distributed computing today.

1992, Sara Radicati, Electronic Mail: An Introduction to the X.400 Message Handling Standards, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 1:

(uncountable, networking) Email (the system).


edress

If anybody wants to take up a reply to ream me out, my edress is as follows: […]

1993 September 23, "williams" (username), "here's another chance to flame, in rec.pets.herp, Usenet

Baleen’s boardroom lay somewhere out in the virtch, in a deeply encrypted region called the Briarpatch. Only Baleen (and Poole sEcurity) had the edress and key.

2001, Michael Flynn, Lodestar, Macmillan,, →ISBN, page 124:

Comcast negotiated a deal for a few months, they're going to pay a lot more to @home for those months, while they try to find a new cable supplier. So your edress will probably change eventually.

2001 December 7, Marilee J. Layman, “Re: @home.com email addys”, in rec.crafts.beads (Usenet):

My edress is […].

2010 April 9, Leslie, “Re: April Phoenix Housfilk - Announcement”, in rec.music.filk (Usenet):


e-dress

As I added my info, one e-dress caught my eye: […]

2001, Andy Anderson, “Ask Doctor Rowing: A tale of three New Yorkers”, in The Independent Rowing News, Volume 9, Number 2 (2001 March 15), ISSN 1548-694X, page 54

Had someone at the paper given out his home e-dress?

2002, Tim Waggoner, All Too Surreal, Prime Books, →ISBN, page 92:

Email is so important in Antarctica. Each expeditioner has an e-dress on board and on the station.

2002, Hazel Edwards, Antarctic writer on ice: diary of an enduring adventure, Common Ground, →ISBN, page 31:

But he wasn’t responding to her messages on his Lucky Dog e-dress.

2007, Richard Hawke, Cold Day in Hell, Random House, →ISBN:

Unmunge my e-dress (I think its self explanatory).

2010 July 29, Adelle, “Re: Formatting replies”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

An email address, a unique identifier specifying a virtual location to which e-mail can be sent.


postmaster

(Internet) The administrator of an electronic mail system.


e-mail address

e-mail address (plural e-mail addresses)

A unique identifier of the form user name@domain name specifying a virtual location to which e-mail can be sent.

ທີ່ຢູ່ອີແມລ

thī yū ʼī mǣn


spambot

(more generally) A bot that sends any type of spam content on the Internet.


BCC

blind carbon copy
blind carbon copy#English

Alternative letter-case form of bcc; Initialism of blind carbon copy.


spammer

(computing, Internet) Someone who sends spam.


spamblock

(computing) Text inserted into an email address in order to make it invalid, though still readable to a human being. For example, in "jsmith-[AT]-example-[DOT]-com", the "@" and "." symbols have been replaced with literal text to prevent automated spambots from finding the email address while still leaving it readable.


spamblock

en-verb

spamblock (third-person singular simple present spamblocks, present participle spamblocking, simple past and past participle spamblocked)

spamblocks (present singular third-person)
spamblocking (participle present)
spamblocked (participle past)
spamblocked (past)

(computing) To obfuscate (an email address) with a spamblock.


snip

snip (third-person singular simple present snips, present participle snipping, simple past and past participle snipped)

snips (present singular third-person)
snipping (participle present)
snipped (participle past)
snipped (past)

From Dutch snippen (“to snip; shred”) or Low German snippen (“to snip; shred”), of imitative origin. Compare snap.

onomatopoeic

imitative

The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores […] but I snipt […]some of it for my own share.

1720, [Daniel Defoe], The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton, London: […] J[ohn] Brotherton, […], J[ohn] Graves […], A[nne] Dodd, […], and T[homas] Warner, […], →OCLC:


mail bomb

denial-of-service attack
denial-of-service attack

(computing) A large number of e-mails sent to one destination, or an e-mail with a very large attachment, as a denial-of-service attack.


unread

You will have fewer 'Unreads' staring at you from your Inbox, and will feel—and be—more productive.

2011, Hugh D. Culver, Give Me a Break: The Art of Making Time Work for You, page 129:

I flipped from the calendar app to the email app and logged in to view Cooper's. The unreads were staggering; I'd have to triage them later.

(computing) An unread email or instant message.


inbox

→ German: Inbox

Your goal with the remaining emails is to take care of them and remove them from your inbox as soon as possible.

2014, Bonnie Hillman Shay, Take Charge of Your Email Inbox, page 35:

(computing) An electronic folder serving the same purpose, but for electronic files, especially email.


blind carbon copy

en-noun

blind carbon copy (plural blind carbon copies)

(Internet) A copy of an email message that is sent to a person (often one of many) other than the primary recipient without the express knowledge of the other recipients.


spammy

en-adj

spammy (comparative spammier, superlative spammiest)

spammier (comparative)
spammiest (superlative)

Of, pertaining to, being, or resembling spam (junk e-mail).


top-post

(Internet, dated) A post on an online forum whose contents are placed above a quoted message which is being replied to.


auto-reply

en-noun

auto-reply (countable and uncountable, plural auto-replies)

I'd like to be able to disable auto-reply for certain users.

(email, computing, uncountable) A feature in e-mail software that sends automatic replies, used for instance when the recipient of a message is on holiday.


in-box

Academic life, like any other, has a full in-box. A professor can stay busy answering his or her mail.

1999, Michael Szenberg, Passion and Craft: Economists at Work, page 187:

Since your next job may not have a very full in-box or a very heavy schedule, and might lack some of the psychic rewards that your previous leadership job had, your state of depression may worsen.

2002, Perry M. Smith, Rules & Tools for Leaders, page 122:

Our livers were never designed to have such a full in-box, and because most people are nutritionally deficient, the body also lacks the materials needed for detoxification

2006, Sally Beare, 50 Secrets of the World's Longest Living People, page 177:


in-box

en-verb

in-box (third-person singular simple present in-boxes, present participle in-boxing, simple past and past participle in-boxed)

in-boxes (present singular third-person)
in-boxing (participle present)
in-boxed (participle past)
in-boxed (past)


antispam

[…] at times I get huge amounts of duplicate messages that can overload my mail-reception pipeline, particularly antispam filters.

2005, Alex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft, David Ascher, Python Cookbook:

(Internet) Countering spam (unwanted electronic mail).

antyspamowy

countering spam (unwanted electronic mail)


listserv

At subregional, regional, and global conferences, as well as through websites, listservs, cyberjournals, newsletters, and public reports and books, feminists from the South have articulated strategies to break down structural inequality […]

2006, Mary E. Hawkesworth, Globalization and Feminist Activism, page 130:

Rather than producing flashy television spots, it has placed simple ads on Web sites of news organizations and urbanbaby.com, and tried to spread its positions by posting on education and community listservs and blogs.

2009 January 29, Jennifer Medina, “Backers of Mayoral School Control Face Resistance”, in New York Times:

Last month, the Forward reported, a former student at Mechon Hadar—a co-ed egalitarian yeshiva in New York—emailed the school's listserv with a plea for the institution to cut ties with [Leslie] Wexner in light of the unspooling allegations against [Jeffrey] Epstein.

2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff, Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents:

(Internet) A type of electronic mailing list, allowing for distribution of email to many subscribers.


top-poster

(Internet, dated) Someone who top-posts.


spamless

The site even had — in those innocent, spamless days — a directory of e-mail addresses, making it easy for users to communicate with message board regulars.

2003, Adam Cohen, The Perfect Store: Inside EBay:

However, the largest impediment to a quick adoption and a world of spamless e-mail is that it places a heavy burden on the sender of new mail.

2004, Paul Wolfe, Charlie Scott, Mike Erwin, Anti-spam tool kit:

If only everyone on the Internet would do this, we could realize the dream of a spamless Internet utopia.

2005, Wade Edwards, Todd Lammle, et al: CCSP Complete Study Guide: Exams 642-501, 642-511, 642-521, 642-531, 642-541:

...welcome to join the conversation in a free, moderated, SPAMless e-mail discussion group.

2006, Gene Marks, Streetwise Small Business Book of Lists:

(Internet, rare) Without spam (electronic junk mail).


autoresponder

(computing) A computer program that automatically sends a certain message or messages in response to incoming e-mail.


listserve

From LISTSERV (a trademark), the first electronic mailing list software application, launched in 1986.

This listserve actually is instrumental in providing me with some background and insights into topics of conversation — so it helps me to meet our students...

1996, Association for Asian Studies, Education about Asia:

What steps can an organization take to minimize liability for third-party communications in a listserve or other interactive forum?

2000, Elizabeth Kingsley, E-advocacy for nonprofits:

For example, if you are interested in IV therapy nursing, there is a listserve for IV therapy nurses...

2001, B Gayle Twiname, Sandra M Boyd, Student nurse handbook: difficult concepts made easy:

We will focus particularly on an analysis of participation on a listserve that the class utilized on an extended basis...

2004, Margaret R Hawkins, Language learning and teacher education: a sociocultural approach:

(Internet) An electronic mailing list using the medium of e-mail.


e-mail

en-noun

e-mail (countable and uncountable, plural e-mails)

I finally figured out what e-mail is for. it's for communicating with people you'd rather not talk to.

2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 262:

She had been crushed for two whole days by an e-mail from her betrothed, which had announced that he had married a British woman.

2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 57:


e-mail

en-verb

e-mail (third-person singular simple present e-mails, present participle e-mailing, simple past and past participle e-mailed)

e-mails (present singular third-person)
e-mailing (participle present)
e-mailed (participle past)
e-mailed (past)


fwd

fwd (third-person singular simple present fwds, present participle fwding, simple past and past participle fwded)

fwds (present singular third-person)
fwding (participle present)
fwded (participle past)
fwded (past)


spamlike

en-adj

spamlike (comparative more spamlike, superlative most spamlike)

more spamlike (comparative)
most spamlike (superlative)

Resembling or characteristic of spam (junk electronic mail).


emailer

Pakistani police said on Tuesday that they have launched a hunt for an emailer whose threatening message to New Zealand cricketers nearly jeopardised their tour to Pakistan.

18 November 2003, Independent Online - Manhunt for emailer who threatened cricketershttps://web.archive.org/web/20100414115105/http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=4

16 April 2007, Manchester Evening News - Golden rules of e-mailinghttp://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/technology/s/1004/1004551_golden_rules_of_emailing.html
Other lessons on so-called `netiquette' the book dishes out are of a more moral tone - for instance, it says that an emailer should never mention anyone in an email who they would not be happy to show the content to.

I also asked whether there had been any complaints (having been made aware by an emailer that he had put in a formal complaint to the website).

2009 October 1, “Roy Greenslade: BBC's 'soft' interview with ignorant BNP members”, in Guardian:


e-mailable

e-mailable (comparative more e-mailable, superlative most e-mailable)

more e-mailable (comparative)
most e-mailable (superlative)

Minimizing a photo or graphic's physical size to no larger than 600 pixels in width will make them e-mailable. Most photos right off your digital camera are 1000s of pixels in width which makes for a very, very, very large file size.

2007, Judith Kallos, E-mail Etiquette Made Easy, page 13:

(Internet) Capable of, or suitable for, being e-mailed.


IMAP

Internet Message Access Protocol
w:Internet Message Access Protocol

(Internet) Initialism of Internet Message Access Protocol.


bacn

Coined at PodCamp Pittsburgh 2, 2007, modelled on spam (junk mail, or a meat product) and bacon.

Examples of bacn email are: bank statement notifications, e-news alerts from companies, newsletters ...

2008, Bill Young, Webplicity 2.0: The Critical Guide to Successful Web Strategies, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 100:

5 dump your bacn This is the term for e-mail newsletters you've subscribed to. Kill them off Monday morning. A study by MessageGate estimates up to 30 percent of e-mails are bacn.

2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 134:

In other words, they're messages that you want to read eventually, just not right now. Clearing away the bacon automatically can help you drill down to what's important more quickly.

2010, Gina Trapani, Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 35:

Rather than let bacn accumulate and ruin an otherwise pleasant day, ...

2011, Ryan Teeter, Karl Barksdale, Google Apps for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

The smart labels feature essentially focuses on "bacn," that brand of e-mail that people subscribe to and generally want to read -- but don't have time for right now.

2011 March 9, John D. Sutter, “Google 'smart labels' aim to de-stress e-mail”, in CNN, retrieved 2013-03-16:

(Internet, informal) Non-spam email messages that have been signed up for, but which the recipient does not necessarily want or have time to read.


e-alert

An alert sent by e-mail or similar electronic means.


spoetry

Irreverent poetry constructed from the subject lines of spam e-mail messages.


unsend

en-verb

unsend (third-person singular simple present unsends, present participle unsending, simple past and past participle unsent)

unsends (present singular third-person)
unsending (participle present)
unsent (participle past)
unsent (past)

To unsend a piece of mail, highlight the mail you wish to unsend and click the Unsend button.

1997, Tom Lichty, Jennifer Marx, Jennifer Watson, The Official America Online Tour Guide - Page 61:

(transitive, messaging, email, text messaging) To undo, cancel, or reverse the transmission of a message


unsend

(messaging, email, text messaging) The functionality or ability to reverse a message transmission


play-by-mail

Heimito Gerhardt, a fan of gaming by mail, presented Conrad and me with our own play-by-mail kits as he accompanied us to the bus station. It so happened that Heimito corresponded with Rex Douglas (one of Conrad's idols), the great American gamer and star writer for one of the most prestigious of the specialized journals, The General.

2011, Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer, The Third Reich, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 25:

(games) Describing a game that can be played in a turn-based fashion through postal mail or email.


email list

An electronic mailing list consisting of a database of email addresses and sometimes other information.


JMAP

JSON Meta Application Protocol
w:JSON Meta Application Protocol

(Internet) Initialism of JSON Meta Application Protocol.


email storm

Microsoft is rolling out a new reply-all protection feature for Office 365 and Exchange Online. It’s designed to prevent email storms, when hundreds or thousands of people start replying to an email thread after someone forgot to BCC everyone or a distribution list was misconfigured.

2020 May 10, Tom Warren, “Microsoft now blocks reply-all email storms to end our inbox nightmares”, in The Verge:

(computing) A sudden spike in emails within an email list, usually caused by thousands of individuals sending "reply all" emails within a short period of time.


reply all storm

en-noun

reply all storm (plural reply all storms)

Things get really bad when a Reply All storm touches down. That’s when one reply to the entire organization inspires hundreds of people to Reply All with "Please take me off this list" messages, which triggers round after round of "Me too" and "Stop hitting Reply All!" (and "Out of Office" messages, each also going to everyone on the list). The quantity of messages explodes geometrically until the entire outfit is brought to its knees.

2019 January 17, David Pogue, “How to Handle the Dreaded 'Reply All Moment'”, in New York Times:


replyallpocalypse

Hitting "reply all" on a mass email is generally a bad idea, but a meltdown at the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is the worst reply allpocalypse we’ve ever seen. According to The Guardian, more than 186 million useless emails were sent out, after a technician sent a "test" message to all 1.2 million employees of the NHS.

2016 November 14, Christina Warren, “This Is the Worst Reply Allpocalypse We've Ever Seen”, in Gizmodo:

We’ve now had 20 years of cautionary tales about replyallpocalypses. For the sake of workplace harmony: keep your pointer off the nuclear button.

2017 February 3, Elle Hunt, “When is it appropriate to reply all? Mostly never”, in The Guardian:


mailbase

From Mailbase, the name of a specific system for this purpose founded in 1989 and used in UK higher education and research.

When you join a mailbase, keep all the information you receive from the administrator about leaving the group. You may find in a short while that you are inundated with email of no interest to you, […]

1998, Pat Maier, Using Technology in Teaching & Learning, page 119:

The development of mass telephone one-to-one communication seemed to have diminished the social custom of handwritten letters. Yet the Internet with email communications facilities has revived the social habit of written though electronic correspondence. Forums and mailbases lead to instant correspondent broadcasts within specific interest areas.

1999, Tim Crook, Radio Drama: Theory and Practice, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 49:

Some of the above are 'virtual collegaues', members of the Victoria 19th-Century British Culture & Society mailbase, and I would once again like to record my thanks both to the listmembers and to Patrick Leary, who as listmaster creates and maintains both the content and the atmosphere of this haven of scholarly collegiality.

2011, Judith Flanders, The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime, London: HarperPress, →ISBN, pages 467–468:

(Internet) Synonym of listserv (“electronic mailing list”).


bottom-poster

Some argue that bottom posters should be courteous enough to snip quoted material such that one shouldn't have to scroll down to get to their response. Not only doesn't that happen, but if everyone snipped appropriately there would be no functional difference between posting methods.

2002 September 23, Paul Gustafson, “Posting Etiquette”, in sci.astro.amateur (Usenet):

One of the great religious schisms on the internet is between the 'top-posters' and the 'bottom-posters', who have different views on where in the message one should add one's own remarks when replying.

2003, Peter Christian, The Genealogist's Internet, 2nd edition, London: The National Archives, →ISBN, page 211:

Please learn how to become a bottom poster instead of a top poster.

2013 May 15, Jason, “Planned Parenthood targets black women”, in alt.abortion (Usenet):

(Internet, dated) Someone who bottom-posts.


bottom-post

If you don't like to read bottom posts - don't. No one is going to change so let it be.

2001 October 4, Don D., “SkriptKiddie Trying something”, in rec.travel.cruises (Usenet):

(Internet, dated) A post on an online forum whose contents are placed below a quoted message which is being replied to.


side-post

en-verb

side-post (third-person singular simple present side-posts, present participle side-posting, simple past and past participle side-posted)

side-posts (present singular third-person)
side-posting (participle present)
side-posted (participle past)
side-posted (past)

Probably analogous to top-post and bottom-post.

You even are so far consumed with your self-importance and propensity to bend others to the way you want them to post by telling me that I am now doing the heinous 'top-posting'. If I could figure a way to side post, you would complain about that, too.

2003 May 15, Cass, “RV Hookups and WA state RV Regulatoins”, in alt.rv (Usenet):

Some lurkers side-post: Several participants said they made connections to individuals outside the online groups. These connections are a valid form of communication and have value for the individuals and thus the group as a whole.

2012, Christopher Lueg, Danyel Fisher, From Usenet to CoWebs, London: Springer, →ISBN, page 126:

Lurkers avoid contributing to the chaos and information overload often found in communities, and, by side-posting or contacting individuals directly instead, they are engaging in pro-social and thoughtful altruistic behaviour.

2016, Giuseppe Riva, Brenda K. Wiederhold, Pietro Cipresso, The Psychology of Social Networking, volume 1, Warsaw, Berlin: De Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, page 163:

(intransitive, Internet, dated) To send a side-post.


out-of-office

There are poetic out-of-offices and humorous (or supposedly humorous) out-of-offices. There are out-of-offices that boast or complain about the person’s likely whereabouts (Bali! Jury duty.).

2015 August 27, Emily Gould, “The Art of the Out-of-Office Reply”, in The New York Times:

That doesn’t happen in even the most enlightened workplaces, but nothing makes me feel more patriotic than emailing a French company in summer, getting an out-of-office that sends me to someone else, that person also being en vacances and suggesting a third, whose out-of-office directs me back to the first person.

2023 August 7, Emma Beddington, “Email makes my fingers tingle and my stomach drop with dread. Can’t we go back to pigeons?”, in The Guardian:

(Internet) An email auto-reply informing people that the person they are trying to contact is not working and unavailable for an extended period of time.


autorespond

autorespond (third-person singular simple present autoresponds, present participle autoresponding, simple past and past participle autoresponded)

autoresponds (present singular third-person)
autoresponding (participle present)
autoresponded (participle past)
autoresponded (past)

Whenever a new user joins, a bot will autorespond with a welcome message.

(intransitive, computing) To respond automatically.