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Electronic mail on the Internet

1995; Elsevier BV; Volume: 108; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0889-5406(95)70086-2

1097-6752

Frederick J. Regennitter, Baxter E. Johnson,

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Real technologic advances have mass appeal and are simple, inexpensive, and convenient to use. People like e-mail because it is cheap, easy, quick, and fun?so they use it. A semantically shortened version for electronic mail, e-mail is a method of sending messages from one person or organization to another, electronically. This combination of speed, convenience, and economy can take various forms, but usually infers communication mediated by computer systems on a network of some sort. 1 Zimmerman JL Lang WP Williams JN Spohn EE. DENTIN (Dental Information Network): a communications and information resource for dental education and practice. J Dent Educ. 1994; 58: 241-245 PubMed Google Scholar Technical standards or rules, known as protocols, allow multiple networks to use different computer operating systems promoting collective interoperability. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is the Internet standard that routes e-mail messages through this global network of networks.