1. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. EDW647 Internet For Educators Email and Newsgroups Roger W. Webster, Ph.D. Department of Computer Science Millersville University (717) 872-3539 office Email: Roger.Webster@millersville.edu Home Page: http://cs.millersville.edu/~webster/ EDW647 Info: http://cs.millersville.edu/~webster/edw647/

2. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. 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)

3. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. EDW647 Internet For Educators Email is good. Email Email addresses on the Internet Roger.Webster@millersville.edu Roger.Webster is the account name mail is the name of the mail server (computer).millersville is the domain.edu is the institution type Bill.Gates@aol.com -> have implied mail server Roger.Webster@millersville.edu

4. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. EDW647 Internet For Educators Long live Email Email Anatomy of an email message -Header Information -Subject -Message Body -attachments -signature

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6. EDW647 Internet For Educators 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

7. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. EDW647 Internet For Educators

8. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. EDW647 Internet For Educators Email -Bounced Mail

9. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. EDW647 Internet For Educators Email -Vacation messages Use Out-of-Office-Assistant tool

10. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. email address aliases/lists

11. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. EMAIL LAB TASKS using Gmail: Send email Receive email Forward email Reply Send attachment (jpg) Receive attachment (jpg) Set up a Signature

12. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. 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

13. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. Using World Wide Newsgroups -World Newsgroups -Using www.Google.com Newsgroups

14. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. Using Google Newsgroups

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20. 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

21. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. Thank You If you have any questions please feel free to email me: Roger Webster, Ph.D. Roger.Webster@millersville.edu http://cs.millersville.edu/~webster/