Email is electronic mail that goes from individual to individual. You can use it to ask questions of your instructor, connect with other students, participate in a discussion list, send your assignments to your instructor, and more. Here are some links designed to help you use email more effectively.
E-mail or electronic mail has already become a basic communication tool in today's society. Although the procedures with one server or program may not be exactly the same another, but the principles are the same. In an age when letter writing is on the decline, e-mail is on the increase. The advantages are that:
E-mail is immediate (you may talk to a friend or colleague several times a day).
E-mail is free (if you can call your server with a local call, you can connect for free to anywhere in the world).
E-mail is personal (it takes on the characteristics of interpersonal communication and is casual and informal).
E-mail is an equalizer (you can access a peer or a "biggie" equally easily). E-mails gives you quick and easy access to your professor and peers.
Unless a message is encrypted or security software is used, there is
little security
in using the Internet. That is why it is crucial that you be careful
about the kinds
of information--a credit card number, for example--that you give out
via the Internet. Any email you use through your institution actually
belongs to the institution. Although the volume of daily mail may be
huge, in the millions, no email is necessarily
private. Certain computer personnel have access to your mail and may
for some reason
chose to read it.
Among the free email services available.
http://www.hotmail.com/
http://www.juno.com
http://mail.yahoo.com
http://netaddress.usa.net
http://www.findmail.com/list/edresource/
Smiley Central (free icons)
http://www.smileycentral.com/