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Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D.

EDW647 Internet For EducatorsEmail and Newsgroups

Roger W. Webster, Ph.D.

Department of Computer Science

Millersville University

(717) 872-3539 office

Email: [email protected]

Home Page: http://cs.millersville.edu/~webster/

EDW647 Info: http://cs.millersville.edu/~webster/edw647/


EDW647 Internet For Educators

One of the first Internet software tools was email. Ray Tomlinson, a Principal Scientist at BBN, invented and sent the first network email in 1971.

Email•What is email

•Email addresses on the Internet

•How does it work?

•Anatomy of an email message

Sending Attachments

Receiving attachments

•Signature

•Bounced Mail

•Printing

•Vacation messages

•email address aliases/lists

•Viruses (*.vbs scripts and *.exe files)



Email is good.

Email•Email addresses on the Internet

[email protected]

Roger.Webster is the account name

mail is the name of the mail server (computer)

.millersville is the domain

.edu is the institution type

[email protected] -> have implied mail server

[email protected]



Long live Email

EmailAnatomy of an email message

-Header Information

-Subject

-Message Body

-attachments

-signature



Send jpg pictures of kids,etc.

Email-Sending Attachments

-Receiving attachments

File formats for pictures:

*.jpg

*.gif

*.pdf

*.bmp

*.tiff

File Formats for compressed files:

*.zip

*.gz

*.Z


EDW647 Internet For EducatorsEmail

-Bounced Mail


EDW647 Internet For EducatorsEmail

-Vacation messages

Use Out-of-Office-Assistant tool


email address aliases/lists


EMAIL

LAB TASKS using Gmail:

Send emailReceive emailForward emailReplySend attachment (jpg)Receive attachment (jpg)Set up a Signature


•What is a Newsgroup? •How do they work? •How to "subscribe" a Newsgroup •How to "unsubscribe" from a Newsgroup •Reading messages •Posting messages •World Newsgroups -Using www.Google.com Newsgroups

Using Newsgroups


Using World Wide Newsgroups

-World Newsgroups -Using www.Google.com Newsgroups


Using Google Newsgroups


Using Google

Newsgroups



Using Google

Newsgroups

Using Newsgroups


Using Newsgroups


Using Newsgroups

Lab Task-Read google.com newsgroups (NG)

-Post to the google.com NG

-Reply to a google.com NG posting

-Reply to an individual email on google.com NG


Thank You

If you have any questions please feel free to email me:

Roger Webster, [email protected]

http://cs.millersville.edu/~webster/

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