What is Email?
Email stands for electronic mail. While it originated as an after thought to the beginnings of the Internet (ARPANET – 1960 S), it is currently one of the most popular services of the Internet. Email does not have to be Internet based. It can be an in-house service that reaches only a certain population. Internet email can be sent to anyone in the world who has an Internet email address. Email has both similarities and differences with more conventional postal services. First, messages are posted electronically to individuals at specific addresses much like conventional mail. The address denotes the computer that the individual employs as a mail server. A mail server is like a local post office: it is a computer that sends and receives electronic mail for a specific network. Like regular mail, when messages are delivered, the user may read them at his or her convenience and like postal letters, email may be saved or discarded. Unlike conventional mail, email is much faster (conventiona
Email, short for electronic mail, is one of the most popular use of the Internet today. Email allows any person with Internet access to send written messages, files and pictures to any other person with Internet access, anywhere in the world, almost instantaneously! Free, web-based email services such as Yahoo! Mail mean that you don’t even need to own a computer in order to send and receive email. Yahoo! Mail accounts are fully accessible from any computer with Internet access, including libraries, school computer labs and cafes.
Email is electronic mail – the process of sending and receiving messages in electronic form from one PC or terminal to another via the Internet. The term is used to refer both to the communication system and to the messages sent and received. Email is often used as a substitute for a telephone call or a shout across the hall, but it can have the same potential evidentiary value as any other record documenting the transaction of public business. Because email is increasingly used to conduct state government business, it is necessary that agencies develop policies and procedures that ensure that records created or received on email systems are managed according to Mississippi’s public records laws.
