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2011 October 1/10:32 PM
This document dates from the early web period, and is kept for archival purposes only. It is no longer updated, and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate.Anyone on the net can receive electronic mail. It’s part of the definition of being “on the net”. People who are completely on the net can do ‘talk’ as well, engaging in immediate, written, conversations. Next year, you’ll be able to talk by actually speaking into a microphone, and even, if you have a video camera, let the other person see you. There are people doing it today, but they’re computer geeks and porn stars.
- Freedom Of Speech: ADDRESSES
- Your electronic mail address is your username, as provided by your Internet Service Provider ‘@’ some mail computer. For example, my address is capvideo@example.com. My username is “capvideo” and the mail computer that handles my e-mail is “example.com”. If you want people to talk to you or send you mail, you need to give them your address. If you want to talk to someone or send them mail, you need to get their address. Each address has two…
- Electronic Mail
- My recommendation for e-mail software is a free package called Eudora”. It follows the “user interface” standards for your computer, allowing you to more easily integrate the rest of your work with your electronic mail. You can then copy and paste from your mail to your word processor, for example, and vice versa. Besides Eudora, you can also use the built-in e-mail software in Netscape Communicator, but it’s slow as crap.
- Freedom Of Speech: Talking
- You can “talk” with people in “real time” as well. The talk command is the “real time” equivalent of electronic mail. Real time means that the person on the other end sees what you type when you type it, and you see what they type at the same time. There is “talk” software for the Macintosh and for Windows. You can also use talk from your Unix “shell” account if you have one. From the Unix command line, type talk email address and press return.…
- Finding People
- There are two ways of doing anything in this world: the easy way, and the hard way. Now, suppose you want to find out a person’s e-mail address. How do you do it? Well, there’s an easy way, and…
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