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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 It is no longer updated, and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate.Your electronic mail address is your username, as provided by your Internet Service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 parts: the person and the place, and they’re separated by the ‘@’ sign.