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POST OFFICE PROTOCOL

Specialty Definition: POST OFFICE PROTOCOL

DomainDefinition

Computing

Post Office Protocol (POP) A protocol designed to allow single user computers to retrieve electronic mail from a POP server. The POP server might be a computer with a permanent Internet connection whereas its clients might only connect to it occasionally, e.g. by modem. There are (in 1994) three versions: POP, POP2, and POP3. Later versions are NOT compatible with earlier ones. [Details?] (1997-03-06). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: POST OFFICE PROTOCOL

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
POP3EnglishPost Office Protocol 3Computer - (Internet, RFC 1939)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: POST OFFICE PROTOCOL

Specialty definitions using "POST OFFICE PROTOCOL": POP server, POP3. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: POST OFFICE PROTOCOL

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

post office protocol

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: POST OFFICE PROTOCOL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 4F 53 54      4F 46 46 49 43 45      50 52 4F 54 4F 43 4F 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01001111 01010011 01010100 00100000 01001111 01000110 01000110 01001001 01000011 01000101 00100000 01010000 01010010 01001111 01010100 01001111 01000011 01001111 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#79 &#83 &#84 &#32 &#79 &#70 &#70 &#73 &#67 &#69 &#32 &#80 &#82 &#79 &#84 &#79 &#67 &#79 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 004F 0053 0054      004F 0046 0046 0049 0043 0045      0050 0052 004F 0054 004F 0043 004F 004C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50495354249404043373925052495449374946

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Abbreviations
4. Acronyms
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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