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Today, most people realize that e-mail messages should follow basic rules of grammar and guidelines for business letter formats. For a discussion of e-mail context and contents, read "A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email" at www.webfoot.com/advice/email.top.html. At the Albion Cybercasting site (www.albion.com/netiquette) you'll find links to a netiquette quiz and excerpts from Virginia Shea's book, The Core Rules of Netiquette.

Did you know that you can obtain free e-mail service? Read a description of the perfect free e-mail service at www.emailaddresses.com/guide_evolve.htm. Then investigate any of the over 700 free e-mail services by visiting www.emailaddresses.com/email_providers.htm. If you change your e-mail address, you can use mail forwarding, which directs e-mail sent to your old address to your new address. That way you won't miss any e-mails when you "move." You can find a comprehensive listing of free e-mail forwarding services at www.emailaddresses.com/email_forward.htm.


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Electronic Mail   This tutorial on e-mail from webTeacher provides information on all the basic e-mail issue you can think of: sending and receiving mail, attaching files, finding addresses, and mailto links in hypertext documents. The section on attaching files is particularly helpful. It discusses issues such as encoding and provides a hands-on exercise using the e-mail client associated with your web browser. You can also follow the links to exercises on encoding using a popular encoding scheme for the Macintosh called binhex.

The Lure of a Mail Box on the Web   If you have been browsing the Web, you might have encountered free e-mail services, which are supported by advertising. Some of the more well-known providers of free e-mail are Yahoo!, Excite, and Juno. This article discusses the benefits of advertising-supported e-mail for marketers and why users find these services valuable.

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