REVIEW CHAPTER 2

• With most e-mail client programs, an icon representing an attached file accompanies the file.
• MIME is a protocol that specifies how to encode nontext data, such as graphics and sound, so they can travel over the Internet.
• You can forward a message you receive to someone else.
• When you send e-mail from your computer, that mail is forwarded across the Internet until it reaches its destination.
• When e-mail cannot be delivered, the electronic postmaster sends the mail back to you and indicates that the addressee is unknown.
• A full e-mail address consists of your username, followed by an @ sign, followed by the host name.
• You can attach more than one file to an e-mail message.
• The files attached to an e-mail can be delivered to more than one recipient at the same time.
• When you receive an e-mail message, the date and time it was sent and other information is added to the message automatically.
• A distribution list is a single nickname that represents more than one individual e-mail address in your personal address book.
• You can use an address book to save e-mail addresses and easy-to-remember nicknames for those addresses.
• Pine is a simple system that accepts and displays only plain-text e-mail messages.
• Yahoo!Mail, ExciteMail, and HotMail are all free e-mail programs that you can access from any Web browser.
• The edu host name suffix indicates that a computer belongs to an educational institution.
• E-mail addresses, also called Internet addresses, uniquely identify an individual or organization that is connected to the Internet.
• The username and computer name of an e-mail address are separated by a(n) @.
• The number 192.55.87.1 is an example of a(n) Internet Protocol.
• A(n) attachment is encoded so that it can be carried safely over the Internet, to "tag along" with the message.
• A(n) formal signature typically contains the sender’s name, title, company name, company address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address.
• You can use the option carbon copy or blind carbon copy header line to send mail to people who should be aware of the e-mail message but who are not the message’s main addresses.
• You can send a message to several people by typing a comma between their individual e-mail addresses.