Understanding e-mail addresses, Understanding e-mail addresses -6 – Compaq 233789-371 User Manual
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To send and receive e-mail,
you need an e-mail address
so that your Internet
Service Provider (ISP) will
know where to “pick up”
and “deliver” mail.
The My Presario—Learning
More CD has information on
finding e-mail addresses.
E-mail extensions identify the
type of server where an
organisation resides. Some of
the most common e-mail
extensions and their
descriptions are as follows:
Extension
Description
.org
organisation
.com
commercial
.net
commercial
.edu
education
.gov
government
agencies
.mil
military
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Understanding E-mail Addresses
Some ISPs allow you to pick an e-mail address, but others
require you to follow a set pattern:
➜
your login name
➜
@
➜
ISP server name
ISP names can be longer and more complex, but basically
anything to the right of the @sign is the ISP server name and
anything to the left is the user name. For example: