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For the Beginner
Now that the
is powered up and connected to a
telephone line, you are ready to receive your first E-mail!
But if it is your first time to use E-mail and this device,
there is something that you should bear in mind.
How E-mail Works
E-mail is like postal mail, better more magic and better.
Electronic mail is created to work in the real world among
the lots of virtual post offices on the Internet. It has mail
boxes (both incoming and outgoing mail boxes like the
ones you often find at your home and on the streets
corners), post offices, and envelopes containing written
messages. You even have an address book where you
store the addresses of people you send mails to.
Electronic mail differs from the postal service in some
important and powerful ways, however. For one thing, E-
mail is nearly instaneous when you send a message from
your device, it arrives at its destination (the mail receiver/
receivers) in minutes if not sooner. E-mail is delivered
constantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, it never takes
a holiday, so the contact can be made any time, any
place. Besides, you can send one mail to many people at
the same time.
Once you start using E-mail, it will change the way you
think about communicating forever.
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