E-Mail

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Electronic mail or in short “email” is one of the most popular and useful features of the Internet. By definition, it is mail delivered through electronic means. However, while tracing the development of email communication Tao and Reinking (1996) identified at lest three definitions of email: 1) It is mail being transmitted electronically. This definition embraces fax and telex. 2)

It is only communication through computers but would include graphics as well as texts as appropriate email communication. 3) It is only text being transmitted through computers between senders and receivers. Today, email is primarily known as communication from one person to another or many others through the use of computer and networks.

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