E-mails
Hi, my name is Daniel. I am going to talk to you about e-mails. I am going to tell you how they work, how to use them, and how to sign up for an e-mail account. E-mail stands for electronic mail instead of mail coming straight to your house it comes instantaneously to your computer, phone, or PDA. An e-mail account is an important thing to have, it helps you to keep in touch with the people in your life. They let you communicate with family and friends all over the world. You can send pictures, documents, and type letters. You can have your bank send you bank statements through your email of your phone. I-phones and I-pod touches you can download apps that you can log in and it gives you all your info.
How to sign up for an email
There is not much to signing up for one. There are many different types of e-mails web sights that you can have an e-mail account at. You can go to Gmail.com, Yahoo.com, or Hotmail.com. Their web sites and you will see a sign up link; click on that link to start the process.
- Once you put in the required information, ie: password, email address, etc. You will receive a message in your in-box saying you have successfully signed up.
- Once you have it, don’t forget your email address or your password.
- You can go back to your email whenever you like.
How to use them
* E-mails are quite easy to use. You go to the URL. An URL is (Uniform Resource Locator) most know it as an address that allows you to go to your e-mail or any other place on the web. They are at Yahoo, gmail.com, hotmail.com. Put in your user-name and password through a log-in screen and after that you will have access to your e-mail account.
* To check your messages there is a box that says inbox. Click on, the inbox link and you can check the mail that people send to you.
* There are lots of links on your e-mail account you can check. One example is the messages you send to others. This would be the sent link. Another link you might see is the drafts link. The draft link is when you are not done with an e-mail and it is not ready to be sent you can save it and get back to it when you have time. You can also look at the chats that you have had. A chat is when you have a talk with someone it is like texting you can download a chat program then you can talk with others that you know.
Here is something about the email that you may not be aware of. An email that was sent in the early 1970s looked very similar to one sent on the Internet today. The first e-mail was sent in the 1971 by a computer engineer named Ray Tomlinson the message was simply a test message to himself.
Many messages that you will get today are called spam. Those are messages that you don’t know who they are from. They tell you about buying something or about stuff that is going on it the world. If the give out your email address to web sites they will keep on sending you messages about different stuff. If you get a spam it is hard to get rid of them you have to change your e-mail address or get a new e-mail. There is a setting that you can enable or disable the spam that is sent to over the internet.
Your email address provides all of the information required to get a message to you and from you from anywhere in the world. An address doesn’t necessarily have to go to a human being. In some cases it may be read by a computer. Some e-mails that you send are not answered by people some messages are sent to from computers like a spam that are set on a computer to get sent out to everyone’s e-mail that they have.
Email addresses (johndoe@gmail.com) usually appear in one of two forms. One using the Internet format which contains @, an “at”-sign, and using the UUCP (UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Protocol) format which contains !, an exclamation point, also called a “bang.” The latter of the two, ]UUCP “bang” paths, is more restrictive, yet more clearly dictates how the mail will travel.
There are many kinds of email programs out there for Macintosh or Apple, Microsoft, and Linux. You have lots to pick through. I use Linux programs on Ubuntu. There are a lot of email programs out there for that. Windows has a good one it is called outlook. You can set up an email there like you would with the other e-mail providers. With Yahoo, Hotmail.com there are programs that you can install on you computer to talk to people. With Gmail.com you don’t have to install anything on your computer. It is right there on the page that your email is on. You can click on a name and start chatting with them but the bad thing is that they have to have Gmail as well.
- Question: How Many Emails Are Sent Every Day?
- Answer: Statistics, extrapolations and counting by Radicati Group from August 2008 estimate the number of emails sent per day (in 2008) to be around 210 billion.
183 billion messages per day means more than 2 million emails are sent every second. About 70% to 72% of them might be spam and viruses. The genuine emails are sent by around 1.3billion email users. (http://email.about.com/od/emailtrivia/f/emails_per_day.htm) by: Heinz Tschabitscher
“It is amazing to find that in this day and age, some companies have still not realized how important their email communications are. Many companies send email replies late or not at all, or send replies that do not actually answer the questions you asked. If your company is able to deal professionally with email, this will provide your company with that all important competitive edge. Moreover by educating employees as to what can and cannot be said in an email, you can protect your company from awkward liability issues. This website discusses the main etiquette rules and provides advice on how employers can ensure that they are implemented”.
‘By requiring employees to use appropriate, businesslike language in all electronic communications, employers can limit their liability risks and improve the overall effectiveness of the organization’s e-mail and Internet copy in the process’ – Excerpt from ‘Writing Effective E-mail’, by Nancy Flynn and Tom Flynn.