The Online World resources handbook

Electronic mail, telex, and fax http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/7.html
fill it up. When full, mail to you will be rejected. You wouldn't want that, right? One
solution is to pay for more space...
How to send email?
Many users just "talk" with an email program to send and receive mail. Internet users of
programs like Eudora (my favorite) and Pegasus Mail may compose mail before calling
the access service. They click on a "write new mail" icon, enter an email address, a
subject, write the text, and click at Send.
When all outgoing messages have been composed, they logon to the Internet. Their
mail is sent in one batch, and incoming messages are simultaneously retrieved.
Interaction with the online service is transparent to the user. Simple. Safe. Quick. Cheap.
(see Chapter 16 about automatic email programs).
CompuServe users of programs like OzWin or TAPCIS do it in a similar way, but
they can also do it manually. Other systems require different commands to send email.
On some Unix system, mail may be sent using the following type of commands:
1. Type "mail presno@eunet.no".
2. When the computer asks for "Subject:," enter "Hello, my friend!"
3. 7\SH \RXU PHVVDJH RU VHQG D SUH SUHSDUHG WH[W
4. When done, enter a period (.) in the beginning of a line, and the message is on its
way.
Though commands for sending email differ by system, the principle is the same. All
systems will ask for an address, and the text of your message. On some, the address is a
code, on others a name (like ODD DE PRESNO). The same applies to the email
programs.
Most systems and programs will ask for a Subject title, and let you send copies of
your mail to other recipients (Cc:).
Some let you send binary files as email. Binary files contain codes based on the
binary numeration system. Such codes are used in computer programs, graphics pictures,
compressed spreadsheets, word processed text files, and sound files.
Some email programs let you send mail in web format (formatted in html). This lets
you make your mails very beautiful, and you may include photos and clickable links to
web pages in a practical way.
Make sure the person you are writing to can receive such emails, or risk confusion
at the other end. Also, when including links to web pages, be careful about punctuation
especially periods right after a web address. Include a space before the punctuation, or
risk that the program at the other end thinks that that last period after the URL is part of
the URL. Also, you should also include the http:// part of the web address.
Example: You want to write: "You are adviced to look up www.kidlink.org." Write: "Your
are adviced to look up http://www.kidlink.org ."
To make sure everything comes across fine, always put URLs on a separate line. Some
URLs are so long that they will get split into two lines in your message. To increase the
chance that a long URL will be interpreted by the other person's program, it may help if
you put the link in brackets (), as in .
Mail through the Internet
Internet's core network has gateways for electronic mail to systems on many other
networks. When we include these systems and their connections, we call it the Matrix,
or WorldNet (more at Appendix 1).
If you read this handbook, you probably already have access to the net. If you
want to check your options, take a look at the links in the appendix "Services offering
access to Internet".
If you are on the Matrix, you can send email to users on networks like UUCP,
CompuServe, MCI Mail, EcoNet, PeaceNet, ConflicNet, GreenNet, Pegasus,
AppleLink, Alternex, UUNET, PSI, Usenet, FidoNet and many others.
3 of 20 23.11.2009 15:45