2. What is ?
When one person sends an electronic message to another person or to a group of people.

3. Snail Mail
Using the post office to send a message

4. Advantages Fast Free Can include the original message Can be tracked
Don’t have to go anywhere

5. Disadvantages
Not Private—Anyone can hack or view if going to a business or through a firewall
Need to have a computer
Easy to send to the wrong person
Can be tracked
Viruses
Spam

6. Important E-Mail Terms

7. Account
Provides the rights to a storage area or mailbox.

8. myname@mymail.com Address
The person and location to whom a message is sent.
For example:

9. Attachment
Any file (graphic, program, .doc, .xls, etc.) that travels with a message.

10. How to Make an Attachment

16. Using this button will pass this e-mail on to whomever you specify
Forward
Using this button will pass this on to whomever you specify

17. Reply
Answering an

18. Address Book
Area of program that keeps addresses and other information such as name, address, phone numbers, etc.

19. CC
Carbon Copy
Sends an exact copy of the to another person or persons.

20. BCC
Blind Carbon Copy
Prevents people who receive the same from seeing the other recipient’s addresses or names

21. --Spam-- Internet Junk Mail
To indiscriminately send unsolicited, unwanted, irrelevant, or inappropriate messages, especially commercial advertising in mass quantities.

22. Flaming Sending angry or inflammatory messages
Tommy is illiterate and hates broccoli

23. Phishing
Using an hoax to obtain information. This is especially true when trying to steal your identity.

24. Hoax
An untruthful message sent to get a response or action from the reader.

25. Hoax Red Flag #1 “Send it to everyone you know”
If it were a real story, you would probably send it only want those who know you.

26. Hoax Red Flag #2 Technical sounding language
"...if the program is not stopped, the computer's processor will be placed in an nth-complexity infinite binary loop which can severely damage the processor..."
Using words that lead you to believe the sender knows what they are talking about.

27. Hoax Red Flag #3 Credibility by Association
If the janitor at a large technological organization sends a warning to someone outside of that organization, people on the outside tend to believe the warning because the company should know about those things and the janitor may know better than you do.

28. Hoax Red Flag #4 Spelling or Grammatical Errors
This is especially true if the “sender” is representing a large company. They pay people to make sure there are no grammatical or spelling errors

29. Hoax Checking Websites

30. Emoticons

31. Emoticons :-) :-( :-D ;-) :'( |-) :-[ 0:-) +o( Happy Sad Yell Wink
Crying
Sleepy
Vampire
Angel
Sick

32. Netiquette
Customs or guidelines for maintaining civilized communication

33. Guidelines for Good E-mail
Don’t type everything in all capital letters.

34. + Be concise so your messages will be read and not just discarded.
Short-N-Sweet
Be concise so your messages will be read and not just discarded. +

35. Break it Up!
Use short paragraphs for easier reading on a monitor.

36. Leave a blank line between paragraphs for easier reading on a monitor.
See…doesn’t that make it easier to read.
Compare it to this and that and everything all bunched together and small and it is just too much work to read so I am going to quit now because it makes me tired and I really don’t care what it says or means or anything

37. Sound Smart!
Proofread and spell-check your before sending.

38. Let Them Know…
Provide a meaningful subject line that introduces your message.

39. Chill a While…
Don’t send messages out of anger because you can’t retract the message once it is sent.

40. From the following Sources:
HoaxBusters.com & Snopes.com
Yahoo Mail
Microsoft Graphics
techdictionary.com
From the following Sources:
Created by Kathy Knudsen 2006
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