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Electronic mail, telex, and fax http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/7.html The Online World resources handbook Chapter 7: Electronic mail, telex, and fax Email for free Sending email Mail through the Internet Finding a friend's email address Directories of subscribers and services Domain name addressing Non Latin characters (The extended character set) Anonymous mail [INDEX] [Expanded Index] [Search] [NEXT] [BACK] Things Take Time! Returned mail How do I know my message is received? Receiving email Attachments Web links in messages Privacy Junk mail (spam) Managing your mailbox Changing your email address Using two or more mailboxes The Traveller's Dream Replying Email: When everything fails Hints Web by email Some old stuff Bang addressing cc:Mail gateways Email to Fax Email to Telex When the recipient is using another mailbox system X.400 addressing FidoNet For more information Electronic mail is the most popular application of online services, and its usage is growing at a phenomenal rate. Way back in 1994, BIS Strategic Decisions (USA) forecasted over 25 billion email messages for the coming year, more than twice the number for 1992. By one estimate, over a trillion email messages were sent during 1996. Oh, well. Messaging Online reported 891.1 million email accounts globally at year end 2000, up 67 percent on the previous year. Over 451 million of the total for 2000 were outside the US. In the early 1990s, there were 15 million email accounts in the world. At the end of 2000, IDC Research estimated that 10 billion emails were being sent every day. If a given email service charges you US$30 per hour, it will cost you a meager US$0.075 to send one typewritten letter (size A 4, or around 2,200 characters). On the Internet, the cost is almost negligible for most users. See Chapter 15 for a breakdown of 1 of 20 23.11.2009 15:45
Electronic mail, telex, and fax http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/7.html this cost. If you live in Norway, and send the letter by ordinary mail to a recipient in Norway, postage alone is US$0.63 (2001). The cost is seven times higher than when using email through a commercial email host. Using the Internet, the postal charges are ridiculously high. To send the same letter from Norway to the United States by ordinary mail will cost 11 times more than commercial email. The letter takes several days to reach the destination, while email messages arrive almost instantly. You can send email to several recipients in one operation without paying extra for the pleasure. Compare with the costs of sending to several recipients by fax! You do not have to buy envelopes and stamps, fold the sheet, put it into the envelope, and bring it to a mailbox. Just let the computer send the letter. The recipient does not have to sit by the computer waiting for your mail. It will be automatically stored in his electronic mailbox. He can read it when he has time. The recipient can print it locally. It will be a perfect document, no different to one typed locally. He can correct, make comments, and email it onwards to a third party. In this way several people can work jointly on a report. There is no need for you to re type the text from scratch. When you receive several messages, you can quickly create replies to them one at the time at your keyboard, and send them in one go. No need to feed five different pieces of paper into a fax machine or envelopes for five different people. Where you can find a telephone, you can also read mail. In most countries, communicating by email is easy and economical. The simple but miraculous thing about email is that you can easily and exactly quote the point to which you are replying. It is truly a revolution in communication. Some online services have a limit on the size of your mailbox. If you receive a lot of mail, you must regularly read and make room for new. If your mailbox is full, new mail may be rejected without warning. You may never know that a person tried to reach you. Select a service that has room for all your mail! A special warning to those with their email programs set to "Leave mail on server", and "Skip messages over xx K in size". Unless you regularly delete mail from server, your mailbox will become full without you even knowing the reason! Email for free Many services on the Internet will let you do email for free or almost free in exchange for the right to put an advertisement on every page you read. Here's some popular US providers: Hotmail , USA.NET , RocketMail, MailCity , Juno, MailExcite, iName. They let you read mail using a standard web browser. All you need is access to the web, at a library, at school, at work, on an airport, an Internet cafe. Anywhere. You get email without having to pay for an account with an Internet Service provider! HushMail uses a Java applet to encrypt (with 1,024 bit encryption) and decrypt messages sent between users with HushMail accounts. Hint: Most these services require that you must be connected to the net while reading and replying . Those using a dial up modem, may find this expensive. Outlook Express as of version 5.0 lets you read and reply to mail offline ("web mail"). You dial up to send and receivel, then hang up your phone. Read and reply at your own pace, and reconnect to send and check new mail when ready. If you insist on using a service where you must be connected to the net while reading and replying, select an international service if your main application is use while travelling abroad. Else, you will find it cheaper and easier to use a local service. To find a service, try the Free Email Providers Guide. Beware: Many email for free services will give you more disk space for your mailbox, but it will cost you. "No need," you might thing. However, you should think again. If you get a lot of spam mail, then a few days absence from your mailbox might 2 of 20 23.11.2009 15:45
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