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ByLaws: Appendix II
Electronic Definitions
- The INTERNET: An independent, public network of more than 18,000
computer networks connecting over 30 million people worldwide. Like the
world's phone system, it is not owned by anybody and hangs together through
mutual worldwide cooperation. Also like the phone system, there are private
companies, such as Netcom, CompuServe, and America Online, through which
some people "buy" partial or full access to the Internet, based
on monthly access charges, but the Internet itself does not charge people
for services or track which areas people visit once they are online. In
contrast with many commercial services (such as AOL, Compuserve, Prodigy,
Genie and others) which charge customers per hour in forum or per message,
most individual Internet users pay little or nothing, and even the minority
who access the Internet through a private service usually pay a flat monthly
fee no matter what areas they visit, and usually no matter what amount
of time they use the service.
- Online Service: An online service is a computer network to which
the general public has access via a modem or other mode of online networking.
The members of this club shall communicate on any online service that provides
Internet e-mail access and shall communicate though the use of a listserver
mail list.
- Online Accounts/Addresses: Online services create online electronic
accounts and addresses for their customers. A maximum of two (2) Regular
members may share a single account/address for voting purposes. There is
no limit to the number of Regular or Associate members who may share a
single account for non-voting purposes.
- Online Mail List: Members shall conduct formal club-related
discussions and business using the mail list electronic address of internet-cat-club@eagle.ais.net.
This mail list is closed to the general public. This mail list address
can be changed as per Article X of the Bylaws.
- Listserver: a computer which sends a e-mail message received
by it at a certain address to all members of a specified mail list at their
individual addresses.
- Listserver mail list: A mailing list that acts as a newsgroup.
Messages sent to a listserver address are sent to everybody who has subscribed
to the list.
- An online mail message: A message which can be read only by
the sender and addressee or by multiple addressees should a mail list address
be used. Private e-mail messages, or any private means of communication
that provides a permanent record, addressed to the Secretary or Election
Clerk must be used for voting.
- Web Page: A World Wide Web (network) document (.html) with hyperlink
anchors to other documents elsewhere on the World Wide Web. This club "Internet
Presence" will provide a location on the Internet that anyone with
direct access to the Internet can visit, where information is available
in a variety of formats (graphical and text based, and even possibly audio
and video) for them to peruse and interact with (leave messages, download
files, do searches), a veritable interactive storefront/information kiosk,
accessible to millions, and completely under club control as far as content
and organization.
- Hypertext: Text that is not constrained to be linear, but instead
organizes information as an interconnected web of linked topics and objects,
allowing you to "surf" through topics that interest you in a
non-linear fashion. The Internet's World Wide Web is a hypertext system.
- Hyperlink anchors: Tools used to link text and objects in a
non-linear fashion.
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