Why Use E-Mail?

S. Sadi Seferoglu

Purposes:

- Communication

• Sending/receiving e-mail messages to/from friends and relatives all over the world (It is free and fast).
• Exchanging ideas with people who share your interests,
• Real-time communication by using a command called "talk".
• Chatting with other people in live conversations (e.g. in irc=Internet Relay Chat),
• Communicating with the professors at the college by sending/receiving e-mail messages,
• Reading notes files in the network,
• Checking the latest news, sports and weather instantly,
• Finding professors' addresses and phone numbers,
• Searching (finding) a friend's e-mail address (all over the world).

- Library Search

• TC Library (EDUCAT) (These searches can be done from your home computer, or at the computer center even when the library is closed.)
• CLIO (Other CU Libraries)
• RLIN (for books not available at CU)
• ERIC and other Databases (for Journal articles)

- Subscribing to Listservers or Newsgroups
- Using Statistical Programs

In the PINE Mail Program, You Can:

Send e-mail messages (COMPOSE MESSAGE - C)

Read (view) the e-mail messages that you have received

Print the e-mail messages you have received (prYnt - Y)

Reply the e-mail messages that you have received (Reply - R)

Forward a received message to somebody else or to yourself (may be after editing the message) (F)

Save messages in folders to organize them (Save - S)

Export text file (turn an e-mail message into a text file) to download (Export - E))

Take the address of the sender from a mail message and put it into the Address Book. (T)

Delete and/or Undelete and eXpunge a mail message. (D - U -X)

Create an address book (in ADDRESS BOOK)

Create folders (in FOLDER LIST) to organize the mail messages that you want to keep.

Change the password you are using with a new one (in SETUP).

Subscribe to discussion lists and/or newsgroups (to communicate with people in your own field and throught the world).

Other Features:

- Telnet
- Gopher
- Using a program called FTP to download files and software programs;

- from a remote machine to your account

- from your account to your computer

- from a remote machine to your computer

Locations Where You Can Use E-Mail:

- Microcomputer Center at 242 HM (Macintoshes and IBMs) (Ext: 3304)
- Computer Classrooms at 345 Macy (Macintoshes and IBMs) (Ext: 3807)
- Student Lounge, First Floor-Main Hall
- From home if you have a computer and a modem
- 102 Philosophy Hall at the Main Campus (Tel: 854-4854)

If you have problems with creating an E-Mail Account, you can see; - Dr. George Schuessler, Director of Academic Computing Services at 236 HM (Ext: 3302)