USING NETSCAPE MAIL
WHAT IS MY ADDRESS?
- Electronic mail is without a doubt the most popular Internet service. Every system on the Internet supports some sort of mail service, which means that no matter what brand of computer you're using, if it's on the Internet, you can send and receive mail.
- Everyone with e-mail access to the Internet has an e-mail address, which is the cyberspace equivalent of a postal address or phone number. When you send an e-mail message, you enter the address or addresses of the recipients so that the computer knows who to send it to.
- Internet mail addresses have two parts, separated by an @ (the at sign). The part before the @ is the mailbox, which is your username, and the part after that is the domain, usually the name of the Internet Provider.
EXAMPLE
thomas@cvc.net
(thomas is the user name, and cvc.net is the service provider.)
Some user names include first names, last names, initials, first name and last name, or anything else, including completely made-up names.- The domain name usually ends with three letters. The domain name for commercial organizations end with .com, such as amrcorp.com (American Airlines). Educational institutions end with .edu, networking organizations end with .net, U.S. Government sites end with .gov, military sites end with .mil, and organizations that don't fall into any of those categories end with .org.
- MY MAIL IS WHERE?
- Mail gets delivered to a mail server, which is sort of like your local post office. To get your mail, you have to go and get it. Actually, you mail program has to go and get it. For you to be able to send mail, you mail program has to take it to the post office. It's sort of like having a post office box rather than home delivery - you have to pick it up at the post office and also deliver your outgoing mail there.
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