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  • MAC (Media Access Control) Address — A unique identifier on a network interface card; on most wireless cards, this is the 12 character (hexadecimal) string printed on the card.
  • MIME — MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is an encoding method designed for exchanging binary files over the Internet (particularly via email messages) in a standardized, platform-independent form using a coding scheme called base64. A MIME-encoded message can contain several parts, each of which can be a different type of file: ASCII text, pictures, video, sound, or any other type of binary data.
  • MIT Alert — the Institute's emergency notification program, designed to provide information and advisories via a number of communication channels
  • MITnet — the short name for the MIT campus network.
  • moira — A large database and API containing user, machine, list, filesystem, and other essential information to manage the MITnet, MIT Email, and Athena infrastructures.
  • moira list — a mailing list, group list, or mail alias managed through MIT's moira central database.
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