e-mails

By: Akhila Ananth 9CBTT107 03

Plan

1. What is e-mail?

2. How e-mail works?

3. Types of e-mail accounts.

4. Google Vs. Yahoo

5. Difference between Electronic And postal mails.

6. Usage of e-mails.

7. E-mails in the business world!

8. How does e-mails affect the People ergonomically?

9. Issues with e-mails.

10.E-mail netiquettes.

What is e-mail?

E-mail is an electronic mail.

Sent across the World Wide Web.

In which a computer user can send a message at one computer or address that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he or she logs in their e-mail account.

How e-mail works?

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How e-mail works?

User 1 is sending a message to User 21.E-mail is sent by user 12.The e-mail gets transferred into an electronic form.3.The e-mail goes to the service provider.4.The service provider processes the address the e-mail should go to and sends the the e-mail to the “to” address.5.Now the e-mail is in the user 2’s inbox.

This is all done in a second!

MSN

MSN is also known as the windows live hotmail or hotmail.

Hotmail, is a free Web-email service operated by the Microsoft as part of its Windows live group.

Hotmail was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith.

This web e-mail service was launched in July 1996.

MSN was one of the first free web mail services.

Hotmail feature 5GB of storage space,in each and every account.

Hotmail also features many other functions other than sending e-mail.

One of the most common function is the MSN live messenger.

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Yahoo mail is a web based Service.

Inaugurated in 1997.

Difference betweenElectronic mails and postal mails.

Electronic mails or e-mails are a lot like postal mail.

E-mail saves trees by reducing the usage of paper,While a postal mail uses paper.

Postal mails need stamps, while e-mails do not need stamps.

We can send videos and music through e-mails, while we cannot by mail.

E-mail are delivered much much faster than a postal mail.

We can chat through our e-mail accounts.

We have our own separate account and address while sending e-mails, but in the case of postal mails we do not.

Therefore e-mails are prominently faster, better & cheaper.

Usage of e-mails

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Series1Nowadays, e-mails are the most prominently used system all over the world.

This is a status of the web mail users in the year of 2008.

E-mails in the business world!

E-mails are used between people to send messages.

E-mail is used in a business office to leave messages to their colleagues in their absence.

Most of the companies communicate with each other thru e-mail.

Many interviews for new candidates are arranged thru E-mail.

How does e-mails affect the People ergonomically?

In order to communicate with people, very far away from the user’s destination,the e-mail users or people chat for long periods of time; as it is much more cheaper and effective.

Sitting on the computer for long periods of time may cause a damage to their back spine.

It would also cause a damage to the other parts of the body (like eyes,legs,arms etc…),by developing stress in those areas.

Issues with e-mails

• Ownership and privacy:

while using e-mail services provides by an organization, do not assume that the messages that are sent are private.

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• E-mail in the workplace:

Overuse of internet leads to reading hundreds of messages a day! which will be very extraordinary.

In order to overcome this problem, some e-mail programs provide options for sorting messages according to subject lines.For example, the globe and mail in 2000 was one of the e-mail programs which provided this option.

E-mail netiquettes

Netiquette is the rules of etiquette as applied to internet communications.Some netiquettes that has to be followed are:

Be polite.

Do not use all capital letters in your message.

Make sure you are sending the message to the right email address

Keep messages short and to the point.

Include a descriptive subject line to help the recipient know the topic of the message.

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