EMAIL

• Email


  A way to send and receive messages across the Internet
• Email


  Similar to traditional mail, but also has some key differences

  
• Email address


  Needed to receive emails, includes a username, the @ symbol, and the email provider's domain
• Email providers


  Companies that provide email accounts, can be web-based email services (webmail)
• Email interface


  • Includes the inbox, message pane, and compose pane
• Using an email interface

  1. Send and receive messages

  2. Discuss various terms, actions, and features
• Internet


  A global network of billions of computers and other electronic devices that allows access to information, communication, and various services

  
• World Wide Web (WWW)


  A collection of different websites that can be accessed through the Internet

  
• Inbox pane


  • Where you view and manage received emails

  
• Messaging pane


  • Where you can read messages and choose how to respond
• Compose pane


  • Where you create your own email message, including recipient email address, subject, attachments, and formatting
• To field


  Where you add the email addresses of the recipients you are sending the email to
• CC (carbon-copy)


  Email field option to send a copy of the email to additional recipients
• BCC (Blind Carbon-Copy)


  Email field option to send a copy of the email to additional recipients without other recipients seeing the BCC addresses
• BCC is the email field option used to send email copies to other recipients without them noticing
• Email body


  • The main content of the email message
• Reply vs Reply to all


  Options for responding to an email
• Email signature


  • Added to the end of an email message
• The World Wide Web needs the Internet to operate


  The Internet provides the infrastructure (cables, routers, etc.) for the World Wide Web to function

  
• Email send button


  • Used to send the composed email message
• The World Wide Web is a subset of the Internet, while the Internet is a global network of computers, the World Wide Web is an application that runs on the Internet

  
• How the Internet works

  1. Computer sends request over physical cables to a server

  2. Server retrieves website data and sends it back to the computer

  3. All happens in a few seconds
• Email attachment


  • Files, photos, documents, etc. that can be included with an email
• Components of the Internet

  • Servers
  • Clients
  • Cables
  • Routers
• Web browser


  A program used to access and view websites on the World Wide Web

  
• Email calendar


  • Allows scheduling appointments, organizing tasks, and managing time
• Email etiquette


  Rules and guidelines for communicating effectively and safely using email
• Search engine


  A program that finds web pages on the World Wide Web by searching an index of web pages
• Never attach a file without mentioning it in the body of the email
• Avoid sending excessively large attachments or uncompressed photos
• Use universal file types like .PDF, .RTF, and .JPG for attachments
• How a search engine works

  1. User types keywords/question

  2. Search engine searches index for relevant web pages

  3. Search engine ranks and returns most useful web pages
• Email greeting


  The opening of an email message
• Web crawler


  An automated program that browses the web and stores information about the web pages it visits to create a search engine index

  
• When analysing markets, a range of assumptions are made about the rationality of economic agents involved in the transactions
• Bookmark


  A method of saving a web page's address for quick future access
• Email clarity


  Ensuring the email message is clear and easy to understand
• The Wealth of Nations was written

  1776
• Downloading files


  1. User clicks link to file

  2. Browser prompts to open or save file

  3. Download begins and progress is indicated
• Rational


  (in classical economic theory) economic agents are able to consider the outcome of their choices and recognise the net benefits of each one