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Sept. 1998 - "Now is the Time"
Oct. 1998 - "What is the Internet?"
Nov. 1998 - "It's an Email World"
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Mar. 1999 - "Desktop Clutter"
Apr. 1999 - "Searching the Net"
May 1999 - "What's in Domain Name?"
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(This article was originally published in The Tahoe Daily Tribune)
Email (short for electronic mail) is probably the World Wide Web's
greatest contribution. Email allows people to send messages around
the world in a instant. Each email message you send, whether across
the street or across the globe, is free and arrives within seconds.
You can also forward other documents or graphics with the simple
click of a button. There are some restrictions when it comes to
email file size, but for the most part, it is not inhibitive.
Emailing has become an effective way to communicate with friends
and loved ones, business associates, potential clients, even make
new friends via chat rooms and Bulletin Boards. Email will continue
to grow in popularity until it truly becomes a communication mainstay.
Once you are online and able to view the Internet through your
Browser, another companion program comprises the email portion
of your system. Some, like Netscape, combine the two features
(browsing and email) and some do not, like Internet Explorer,
which has a separate program attached to it. There are also stand
alone applications like Claris Emailer and Eurdora that possess
more expansive features than the ones connected with the Browser
programs.
You can also use free email programs without viewing the World
Wide Web. The most popular is Juno, which can be found at www.juno.com.
Free online email programs like Hotmail and Yahoo allow you to
go onto the web to read and compose messages. These programs are
effective for people who travel or do not want messages coming
directly into their computer.
Setting up email requires a couple settings regardless of the
program you use. Normally it means going into the Preferences
section of the program. From there, the path takes you to Mail
and Groups or Mail and New Preferences, followed by several files
called server, identity, composition, etc. The two required to
change are identity and server.
Within the server section are three main parts: SMTP (or outgoing
mail configuration), Pop (or incoming mail configuration) and
User (or POP 3) information.
SMTP: This is where you put the information that allows you to
send email. Oftentimes the information is mail.yourisp.net.
Incoming (POP): This information allows you to receive mail through
your ISP and is often identical to the SMTP, ie., mail.yourisp.net.
User Name: This information will be the User Name (login) your
ISP gives you.
You must also set up information within the Identity section of
your email configuration. This allows people who receive your
email to see who sent it and allows them to simply “reply” without
having to type your email address. When replying, their program
quotes your message automatically with their response.
Within the identity section, the email address goes into two locations:
Reply To address and email address.
Email addresses include your name (code, handle), followed by
the @ sign and Internet Service Provider information. Example:
yourname@yourisp.net. See my email at the bottom of this article
for another example. Many people have more than one address and
use different ones depending on who they communicate with via
the World Wide Web. A different address for business and personal
correspondence is common.
How does email work?
When you compose an email message and hit the send button, the
message first goes to your server (the ISP’s computer you communicate
with to get online). It then travels over the phone lines, hitting
several computers (hops) before it arrives at the ISP computer
the recipient uses.
When the recipient is online and accesses their email, the ISP
computer asks for the user name (login) and password. When satisfied
the recipient is the one the email is addressed to, the message
is delivered into the recipient’s computer. This is usually accomplished
within seconds.
Email is not secure so never send sensitive information (credit
card numbers, etc.) through email. More on internet security in
an upcoming article.
Email is destined to become the most often used form of communication
as more people and more companies get online. Experts anticipate
that everybody with a phone line will be using email by 2003,
a short 5 years distant. No cost and instant arrival are very
attractive features that guarantee its success.
Rick Langford is founder of Tahoe Mall, The Tahoe Net and Cache-World
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