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Electronic mail

E-mail is used by the largest number of people on the Internet, although in terms of traffic, the heaviest volumes lie elsewhere. Almost everyone who considers himself connected to the Internet in some way can send and receive e-mail.

The most personal exchanges happen in e-mail since e-mail is inherently an interpersonal form of communication. All of your e-mail comes into your electronic mailbox, and unless you let them, no one else can easily read your mail. When you get a message from a friend via e-mail, it's not particularly different than getting that same message, printed out and stuffed in an envelope, via snail mail. Sure, it's faster and may have been easier to send, but in essence personal e-mail is just like personal snail mail.

Because it's trivial to send the same piece of e-mail to multiple people at once, you also can use e-mail much as you would use snail mail in conjunction with a photocopy machine. If you write up a little personal newsletter about what's happening in your life and send it to all the relatives at Christmas, that's the same concept as writing a single e-mail message and addressing it to multiple people. It's still personal mail, but just a bit closer to a form letter.

The third type of e-mail is carried on mailing lists. Sending a submission to a mailing list is much like writing for a user group or alumni newsletter. You may not know all of the people who will read your message, but it is a finite (and usually relatively small) group of people who share your interests. Mailing list messages aren't usually aimed at a specific person on the list, but they are more intended to discuss a topic of interest to most of the people who have joined that list.

However, it can’t be implied that posting to a mailing list is like writing an article for publication because the content of most mailing lists more resembles the editorial page of a newsletter than anything else. You'll see opinions, rebuttals, diatribes, questions, comments, and even a few answers. Everyone on the list sees every posting that comes through, and the discussions often become quite spirited.

The fourth type of e-mail most resembles those "bingo cards" that you find in the back of many magazines. Punch out the proper holes or fill in the appropriate numbered circle, return the card to the magazine, and several weeks later you'll receive the advertising information that you requested.

For instance, anyone sends an informational file automatically to anyone in the world who sends e-mail to a certain address. A number of similar systems exist on the Internet, dispensing information on a variety of subjects to anyone who can send them e-mail. A variant of these auto reply systems is the mail server, which generally looks at the Subject line in the letter or at the body of the letter and returns the requested file. Mail servers enable people with e-mail only access to retrieve files that otherwise are available only via FTP.

1. Learn the following words and make up as many sentences as you can using these words:

Inherently по сути, своему существу, в действительности, в своей основе

To come into поступать

To stuff заполнять, помещать

Snail mail обычная почта

Mailing list список адресатов

Submission представление, подача

Rebuttal опровержение (обвинения и т. п.), предоставление контрдоказательств

Diatribe диатриба (резкая обличительная речь)

Mail server почтовый сервер

FTR (functional throughput rate) функциональная производительность