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ELECTRONIC MAIL

ELECTRONIC MAIL. Boise State Educational Technology Outreach Program. Functions of Email Software. Read a Message Send a Message Reply - Quote Forwarding Address Books Distribution Lists Folder Maintenance File Attachment. Boise State Educational Technology Outreach Program.

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ELECTRONIC MAIL

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  1. ELECTRONIC MAIL Boise State Educational Technology Outreach Program

  2. Functions of Email Software • Read a Message • Send a Message • Reply - Quote • Forwarding • Address Books • Distribution Lists • Folder Maintenance • File Attachment Boise State Educational Technology Outreach Program

  3. Types of Email • POP – Examples: Micron, MSN, Earthlink • Web-Based – Examples: Hotmail, EdMail, Yahoo Boise State Educational Technology Outreach Program

  4. Parts of an E-mail Address Ex. dvakili@email.boisestate.edu [userid]@[server].[subdomain].[organizational domain] Boise State Educational Technology Outreach Program

  5. Organizational Domains • Domains = Internet addresses • Over 30 million registered • 18 million are .coms • 3 million are .net • 2 million are .org • Forecasted at 60 million by 2002 Boise State Educational Technology Outreach Program Data provided by Reuters as of October 5, 2000

  6. Types of Domains • edu = educational • gov = government • mil = military • com = commercial • net = network • org = organizational • .ca, .uk, .au, etc.= intl Boise State Educational Technology Outreach Program

  7. .name = personal .biz = general purpose .pro= restricted .coop = restricted .info = general purpose .museum = restricted .aero = restricted New Domains as of November 2000 Boise State Educational Technology Outreach Program

  8. Standards/Protocols to Send Messages • Use proper Netiquette. For ex., WRITING IN ALL CAPS IS CONSIDERED SHOUTING. • “Avoid "flaming" (inflammatory or antagonistic criticism), or sending insulting, abusive or threatening remarks.” • http://dgl.com/15min/basics/netiqete/sld01.html • http://www.fau.edu/netiquette/net/index.html Boise State Educational Technology Outreach Program

  9. Use Emoticons to clarify meaning :-) • Intentions are difficult to decipher via email because of lack of body language or facial expression. • Emoticonshttp://www.xs4all.nl/~ernstmul/emoticon.html • More Emoticonshttp://www.chirpingbird.com/netpets/html/computer/emoticon.html :-) :-(~ Boise State Educational Technology Outreach Program

  10. Think Before You Send! Boise State Educational Technology Outreach Program

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