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Help with Email


As an employee of The News & Observer, you have an email address. Your email address is your zmail name (ususally the first letter of your first name and the first seven letters of your last name - i.e. skrueger). You can send and receive email through Zmail. To send email, just type the person's full email address in the TO: location. To receive email, just read your zmail!

FINDING OTHER PEOPLE'S ADDRESSES

In general, the best way to find someone else's address is to use the telephone. Call them and ask; if they don't know they should ask their system administrator. If you can't ask them, use http://sunsite.oit.unc.edu/~masha/ to find email addresses.

Here's a FAQ on how to find someone's email address: http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/FAQs/email/finding.html

You can use on-line services such as Four11 - The Internet White Pages and WhoWhere.

ABOUT EMAIL

Here's a little bit of background about email ...
Internet mail addresses are much like paper mail addresses, in that you specify only a recipient and the location of his mailbox, as in "jgp@ceas.rochester.edu". This is read as a user "AT" a machine. The network takes care of figuring out how to get the letter there, just as with the US Postal Service.

The machine name is complex, and has several parts. You usually won't see more than 4 parts of an address. The last part of the address is called a "domain name". Typical domains you'll see are:

Two letter domain names are for foreign countries. For example, Within a domain, every computer used to filter, run, or send email has its own name. For instance, you may be familiar with the machines "bessel", and "camelot". They were in the domain "nando.net", so their FULL names were "bessel.nando.net" and "camelot.nando.net".


Updated 2/26/97 (SK)