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COMP 103 ONLINE

Dan Watkins

Spring 2010

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E-MAIL ASSIGNMENT #2

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E-MAIL ASSIGNMENT #2

1. In this Assignment, you will move back and forth between this page and Pipeline.

First, read “What makes e-mail different?” (A Beginner’s Guide to Effective E-mail-- A good overview of composing e-mail messages) at the following link. (When you have finished reading the link, close its window by clicking on the X in the top right corner and you will be back on this page to continue.) Now, Click on the underlined words:

http://www.webfoot.com/advice/email.top.html?yahoo

2. E-MAIL: When you return here, click on one of the links below and read about E-mail in ONE of these links (whichever one (or more) you wish). In the next e-mail that you send, you will include some of the information that you read about. (There are many other sites about E-mail. Feel free to explore and you may want to use some of them on your Web Site Diary.)

After you have read your article(s) and return here, close this window and return to #4 in your Course Guide to complete your E-mail Assignment #2.

• Minding your online manners--Excellent overview from Emily Post’s guide: http://www.emilypost.com/business/netiquette.htm

• Business Netiquette: An excellent site for those of you needing to send effective business e-mails:http://www.bspage.com/1netiq//Netiq.html

• Netiquette at Florida Atlantic University (FAU): An excellent resource for learning about netiquette. Be sure to read the sections on Electronic Communication and Electronic Mail and Files--User Responsibility. http://www.fau.edu/irm/about/netiquette.php

• Yahoo’s Netiquette: A good summary of e-mail etiquette: http://rc.yahoo.com/promotions/netiquette/tips.html

¨ E-mail Netiquette Tips for communicating politely via e-mail plus links to technical information www.imagescape.com/helpweb/mail/polite.html

¨ Everything E-Mail Find tips for using email, check the glossary, join a discussion group, and learn about different types of email addresses. www.everythingemail.net

¨ Yahoo Mail! - Netiquette Quiz Tips on proper chat and email netiquette, with an interactive quiz to test someone's knowledge. promotions.yahoo.com/promotions/netiquette

¨ Core Rules of Netiquette Excerpted from Netiquette by Virginia Shea, provides advice at how to smoothly surf the Internet, while respecting others and looking good. www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html

¨ Netiquette Quiz, published by Albion.com An online quiz on network etiquette.www.albion.com/netiquette/netiquiz.html

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Links to Free Web-Based E-Mail

· Gmail http://mail.google.com

· Yahoo Mail Sign Up Page: http://mail.yahoo.com/

· Free E-mail Providers Guide: Resource that lists over 1400 free email providers in more than 85 countries. http://www.fepg.net/