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When you get technical information, how do you translate it into plain English for your users? Here are some examples - please add more of your own.

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outage / downtime break in service
mail gatewayoutgoing messages



Glossaries

Internet and web glossary from Berkeley
Foldoc - free on-line dictionary of computing
Jargon buster from helpwithpcs.com


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Sue_Cunningham 		Latest page update: made by Sue_Cunningham , Feb 26 2008, 5:15 AM EST (about this update About This Update Sue_Cunningham Edited by Sue_Cunningham

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