Occupant — A name designation used for saturation mailings, to ensure that a piece of mail gets to a certain address no matter who lives there.

Occupant lists — Consumer lists which contain addresses and no names, for use in occupant mailings.

One up cheshire label — An uncommonly used format for printing out mailing labels in which the names and addresses print one beneath the other.

One-time use — An agreement between a list owner and a mailer that a mailing list will be used only once, unless otherwise specified.

One-year contract — An unlimited use agreement on a certain list over a set period of time.

Opt-in — When a consumer chooses to receive messages on a certain topic.

Opt-out — When a consumer requests not to receive messages.

Opt-in register — When owners of an e-mail site agree to receive messages covering certain topics.

Output — The form of data that is retrieved from a computer, whether tapes or disks, printed paper, labels, etc.

Overlays — Using a list that is rich in data to augment information in another list with the same names. Overlays can add phone numbers, job titles or demographic or psychographic information. See File tagging.

Owners — Any company that owns the list of its subscribers, customer base, or membership, and can define the terms of renting the list to other mailers.

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