Using Email
Everyone is familiar with sending and receiving paper mail. In many ways, email is exactly the same. You compose and send messages. You receive and read messages. The only real differences are that, instead of using pen and paper, you use a computer; you don't need stamps and messages are transmitted anywhere in the world in seconds - not days or weeks.
There are two essentials that you need in order to send, and receive, email.
The first is an email address. You can get such an address either from your Internet Service Provider (the company who provides your connection to the Internet) or from one of the many, free, email providers on the World Wide Web.
The second is an electronic mailbox. Normally, you will be assigned a mailbox on a remote computer at the same time you obtain your email address. That mailbox is available 24 hours a day for others to send you messages. When you wish to check your mail, you connect to the mailbox, using an email program, and download any messages that have come in for you. You can then disconnect from the Internet, and read your emails at a time that suits you.
Mailing Lists
Mailing Lists differ from normal email in that your messages are read by a large audience rather than by a single recipient. However, you still use email to correspond and use one single email address when sending a message to everyone. Similarly, all messages sent to the mailing list are delivered directly to you when you collect your normal email.
Reasons For Using Email
Keeping in touch with customers.
Keeping in touch with suppliers.
Mailing Lists
BE AWARE!
Bulk, unsolicited, commercial email advertising (commonly called spam) is classified as Internet abuse and is forbidden by most Internet Service Providers. Such behaviour could well result in the loss of your Internet connection account.