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Email Addresses

Electronic mail is hinged around the concept of an address; the section on Networking Basics made some reference to it while introducing domains. Your email address provides all of the information required to get a message to you from anywhere in the world. An address doesn't necessarily have to go to a human being. It could be an archive server,(3) a list of people, or even someone's pocket pager. These cases are the exception to the norm--mail to most addresses is read by human beings. invisible.xbm invisible.xbm invisible.xbm

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