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Your email
AddressJust like your Post Office address or
street address, your email address is how you send and receive electronic
mail. At first the syntax appears a little different than “normal
addresses.” That’s because email travels over networks electronically versus
as printed material.
Your commercial provider email address is usually hosted
by the access Service Provider, such as AOL or MindSpring or your Local
Internet Service Provider. The first section of an email address identifies
you, and the @ points the packet to a specific domain; then the last section
of the address identifies the host server. For example:
yourname@aol.com
yourname@mindspring.com
yourname@localisp.net
When you change providers, your email address changes accordingly. That
can be costly if you are a business and frustrating when you must contact
those in your address book with the new address.
Finding Email Addresses
The Internet Address Finder, or IAF, at http://www.iaf.net/ allows you to
find a person's email address if you know that person's name and other
information about that person, such as the company or organization. In
addition, if you already know a person's email address, you can find out
additional facts about that user.
The IAF also provides a way for you to instantly place an Internet
"phone" call to another user. You can search for a person and if that person
has the correct type of software registered with our system, you can then
immediately "dial" that person by clicking on a hyperlink.
IAF is completely free. Advertisers pay to support this site. The only
thing we ask is that you add listings to IAF. By adding listings, you
contribute to the quantity and quality of the listings.
An “alias” is like an “in care of” address that shows the sender one
address and redirects the mail to a different mailbox. Aliases are free with
each mailbox.
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