 |  Inline/Online: Fundamentals of the Internet and the World Wide Web, 2/e Raymond Greenlaw,
Armstrong Atlantic State University
Ellen Hepp,
The University of New Hampshire
Chapter 1 - Fundamentals of Electronic Mail
Chapter 1 Learning ObjectivesElectronic mail, or email as it is most commonly referred to, is the subject of this chapter. Our goals are to acquaint new users with the fundamental principles of email, to reinforce these basics for intermediate users who have been working with email for a few years, and to point out a few subtleties to more experienced users. The following topics, among others, are discussed in this chapter:
| | | | Email advantages and disadvantages |
| | | | Email addresses, passwords, and userids |
| | | | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) |
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