For the purposes of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ELECTED OFFICIAL. County Executive, Auditor, Recorder, Sheriff, Treasurer, Circuit Clerk, State’s Attorney, Coroner, Chief Judge, Superintendent of Schools.
ELECTRONIC MAIL (E-MAIL). Electronic mail may include non-interactive communication of text, data, image or voice messages between a sender and designated recipients(s) by systems utilizing telecommunications links. It may also include correspondence transmitted and stored electronically using software facilities called mail, facsimile or messaging systems or voice messages transmitted and stored for later retrieval from a computer system.
ENCRYPTION SOFTWARE. Proprietary software that changes information from its native state to an unrecognizable coded state which can only be returned to its native state with special software.
FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL (FTP). A program that allows you to transfer data between different computers on a network or between networks.
INTERNET. A worldwide network of networks, connecting informational networks communicating through a common communications language or protocol.
INTRANET. An in-house web site that serves the employees of the enterprise. Although intranet pages may link to the internet, an INTRANET is not a site accessed by the general public.
LIST SERVERS. An e-mail discussion group.
NEWSGROUPS. The computer discussion groups of USENET.
USENET. A collection of computer discussion groups that are read all over the world.
WORLD WIDE WEB. An internet client-server distributed information and retrieval system based upon hypertext transfer protocol (http) that transfers hypertext documents that can contain text, graphics, audio, video and other multimedia file types across a varied array of computer systems.
(1980 Code, § 36.85) (Res. 01-164, passed 4-19-2001)