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Use "1971First Ever Email" article to answer the following questions: 1. Who put the @ symbol in email addresses?
Thomas Watson answered the first phone call. Who received the first email message?
Why did R.T. develop email? (Watch the video)
2. List 3 advantages to using BCC (Blind carbon copy) versus Carbon copy in email.
3. How does quoting help clarify a response in an email?
4. What symbol tells you the material is quoted?
5. What is an email sig line?
6. Write the first 4 commandments of email. a.
b.
c.
d.
7. What are flames in email?
If you receive a flaming email, must you read it all or can you just delete it?
8. When is it okay to send an unsolicited attachment to someone? (I don't know what unsolicited means.)
9. What is wrong with email spam?
10. What is a bounced email? Write two reasons why an email might bounce.
11. Different computers use different operating systems.
So you cannot easily run a Macintosh program in a PC,
12. YOU GET AN EMAIL WHERE THE TEXT IS IN ALL CAPITALS. What does this mean? (Hint see 6.)
Watch How Email Works animation.
Explore further: Consider the Power of Possibilities through Andreessen's eye
Extra: Is the electronic mail you send or receive at school, home or work private?
Done Already? =:O Emoticons - It can be a challenge to communicate
via email. Our words do not always convey emotions well.
"A lie gets halfway around the world, before the truth
has a chance to get its pants on." - Sir
Winston Churchill Internet
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