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E-mail
E-mail is a way of sending messages from one person on the Internet to another
person on the Internet. The E in e-mail stands for "electronic." This
is an electronic version of regular postal mail. It is one of the oldest applications of the Internet,
so many people have been using e-mail since the mid-eighties.
Because of the advent of e-mail, regular postal mail is
sometimes referred to as snail mail because it is so slow by comparison.
I can send an e-mail to a friend in England, and provided all parts of the Internet
are working smoothly, and my friend happens to be reading her e-mail at the precise
moment that I send my message, I might get a response back within thirty seconds.
Using regular postal mail, the same process could take weeks. Other
key differences include the fact that e-mail is much less expensive to send than regular
postal mail.
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