what is the importance of electronic mail in today's world?
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The imporatnce of electronic mail in today's world is that it makes people's communication from around the world easier and faster. With electronic mail there would be no fear of losing important documents if it is send through snail mail. You can get a reply from someone immediately if it is very important and imminent.
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In 1971, the first e-mail was typed into the Teletype terminal connected to the Digital Equipment PDP-10. \nThe message was transmitted via ARPAnet, the progenitor of the Internet, to the PDP-10 in front. Dan Murphy, a Digital engineer, sent that.
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There's so much bulk mail nowadays but it won't hurt if there is a contact number or anything like that to test the validity of this e-mail. Good Luck :)
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to the extend that people do not communicate face to face anymore.  everything is ny e-mail or the internet.  communication has improved is getting information across faster and easier but i find that i do not go see relatives as much because there is e-mail and instant messaging to do that for me.  spending time on the computer with them is the same as being in person to them for me.
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I think you are asking why we have mail addresses?  \n\nTo get our mail,  not everything goes through e-mail so the postal service has to do something to keep all the houses straight
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Communication in the 21st century:Benefits of the Internet
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History and technology\n\nUntil the 1990s this was the normal configuration for a mail server and was often the default on UNIX systems at installation. This was due, in part, to the traditional method in which e-mail (through and beyond the Internet) was passed from computer to computer via modems on telephone lines, often never touching the small Internet of the time. It was cheaper and simpler for e-mail to be passed from computer to computer until it reached its destination than to connect directly to the target computer (e.g. via modem) and log in to transfer the mail. Filtering and speed of e-mail delivery were not priorities. Furthermore, the small number of servers on the Internet generated a peer pressure on standards and conventions of its use. Moreover, on the government and educational servers with which the Internet was started, the transfer of commercial messages was forbidden by federal edict, as it was a government operation.\n\nNowadays, e-mail transfer by "relaying," or pass-along methods, is almost forgotten. Backbone networks and Internet switches make it cost effective and expeditious for end-user PCs or even cellphones to send mail directly to the target host, without need for relaying through a "middleman" site. The underlying communication methods of the Internet already provide end-to-end connectivity via a pass-along method.\n\n\nAbuse by spammers\n\nIn the mid-1990s, once the Internet became more of a publicly available (and moreover, commercial) service, it wasn't long until it was utilized by mass-marketers, today known in the electronic world as spammers. As spam soon became widely unpopular, especially by e-mail server administrators who had to deal with the increased unsolicited traffic, spammers discovered that they could minimize or avoid detection by re-routing their e-mail through third party e-mail servers. After this practice became widespread, the mere practice of operating an open relay e-mail server became frowned upon among a significant number of Internet server administrators and other prominent users, many of whom were veterans of the Internet's non-commercial era.\n\n\nAnti-spam efforts against open relays\n\nMany ISPs use DNSBLs (DNS-based Blocking Lists) to disallow mail from open relays. Once a mail server is detected or reported that allows third parties to send mail through them, they will be added to one or more such lists, and other e-mail servers using those lists will reject any mail coming from those sites.\n\nThis trend reduced the percentage of mail senders that were open relays from over 90% down to well under 1% over several years. This led to spammers adopting other techniques, such as the use of open proxies to send spam. Although open relays are no longer widely used to send spam, many sites continue to refuse mail traffic from them.\n\nOne consequence of the new unacceptability of open relays was an inconvenience for some end users and certain internet service providers. To allow customers to use their e-mail addresses at Internet locations other than the company's systems (such as at school or work), many mail sites explicitly allowed open relaying so that customers could read and send e-mail via the ISP from any location. Once open relay became unacceptable due to abuse (and unusable due to blocking of open relays) ISPs and other sites had to adopt new protocols to allow remote users to send mail. These include SMTP-AUTH, POP-before-SMTP, and the use of virtual private networks (VPNs).\n\nThe Can Spam Act of 2003 makes it illegal to send spam through an open relay, but makes no provision regarding sending personal e-mail through them or regarding their operation.
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I think first on the list would be communication.  Computing technology allows for massively improved communication.  It is easier (look how easy it it was for you to contact me).  It is quicker (imagine how many months it would have taken you to get answers to your questions if you'd had to use snail mail).  And the content is much richer (you can send anything at all to me except touch, taste and smell---and they're working on them!)\n\nSecond on the list would probably be information.  Communication and information are very much associatated, but let's look specifically at the content of what you can send and receive.  You can send me anything at all that fits in the audio or visual range.\n\nAnd then there's the fact that the use of computers makes our lives easier.  They are execellent at doing complex calculations for us.  They allow us to simulate things rather than actually doing them (that, I understand, is how the USA continues to develop its nuclear weapons: through simulation... but you might want to check that fact).\n\nFor more information you might like to make your way through the links on this page\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing\n\nGood luck
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means send mail to people.
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It could be. I got my first e-mail address when i was 8 years old and it was ok. you just have to be care full about Junk mail. some of it ain't to good...
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Today's world is a computer world because we rely on the computer to do everything, even to breathe. We use it for communication like this forum, we use it to help disabled people like me type by using voice recognition software. There is a program in my math class that we used to solve problems instead of doing it on paper. All sorts of stuff.
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very important not only in the job place but everyday living. Computers make life easier ad better organized. It's good for everyone to become familiar with computers
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I don't think it's the internet per se but technology in general.  These gadgets and gizmos that require us to send messages with a limited number of letters corrupts the language because we get used to this kind of "language" even when we're not limited by message size anymore.
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gmail.com its the best mail service ever it also got an award for that and they also have a lot of options in sneding mail and you can even send invites to people it really cool and its too easy to send e-mail to someone it get's send in like 10 seconds and also depends on the computer you can even store more pictures  and mails because it have a lot memory
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Huge advantage. Releases that would take a day to stuff and send through postal mail to 250 newspapers can now be sent in minutes through e-mail or mail merges. Plus, it allows PR people to stay in touch constantly (remote e-mail, BlackBerry, etc.) Last, it has created new avenues for publicity (online publications, RSS, blogs, etc.)
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Tom, I suspect that email is still the preferred method of online communication by most.  We have used other methods as our web design company is obviously concerned with such things, but what we've found is that regardless of technical advantages and disadvantages of any methodology, common usage rules the game and basically everyone who has a computer also has an email address.\n\nBest wishes!\n\nDaniel\nhttp://www.ipowergrfx.com
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Most books are online and there isn't as much need for the physical libraries.  Also, with all of the research that is being done every day, it's important to keep track of journals, publications and research studies which most get through e-mails or to organizations that we pay for.  It's pretty much like any other profession; the internet has changed much of education and ongoing education.