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Email - 'Electronic mail'

is a method of exchanging digital messages across the Internet or other computer networks' - Wikipedia



2 Email Services:



Gmail priority inbox:

'Gmail is a free, advertising-supported webmail, POP3, and IMAP service provided by Google'- Wikipedia

Gmail is good because it finds the important messages and sorts them in order of priority for you. It does this by looking at the emails you read quickly when first logging into your emails and also looks at the emails you reply to, these are then put at the top of your email list when they are recieved. This is useful to the majority of people as it saves a lot of time and is much easier. The main aim of Gmail is to make people enjoy using email and to make it stress free by sorting the emails for you.

It has one of the best spam filters on the internet, which is very important as it wastes less of their time and deletes the files that could cause harm to the computer. There is a 'star feature' which means that if there is an email that you want to read again you can put a star on it and then it is put in a special folder, meaning you can go back and view it at any time.

The gmail filters allows you to say which emails are most important to use, as they are recieved a star will automatically be put on this email and it will be placed in a special folder, making it easy for you to straight away find it.

You can also manually say if an email is important or not so that if they have chosen the rong order of priority this will be changed. This type of system works effectively over time, so the more you use it the better it gets and sorting your mail.



Windows live hotmail:

is a free web-based email service operated by Microsoft as part of its Windows Live group-

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Hotmail is UK's most popular email service ('Comscore September 2009'), due to the fact it is free, easy & safe to communicate over the internet. Hotmail has 'ever growing storage' this means that you start of with 5 GB of space but as you get more emails and your inbox and sent box become full your storage space expands with you. This is a useful feature to has as it means you dont have to constantly be going through sorting out messages to delete, as you can keep them all. You can now 'instant message from your inbox' meaning that when in your hotmail just log into your windows live account and see who is availavle to instant message, this is just an easier option than having a conversation via emails.

A new thing that hotmail offers is the application to have hotmail on your mobile so that you can read your emails on the go, this is a good feature to have for business people, and busy people who don't have time to sit on the computer.

A good reason to use it is the fact it has a 'personal spam bodyguard' this means that it filters your emails and puts all the spam and junkmail into a seperate folder, stopping you from having to search through unwanted emails and from getting virus's.



Benefits and problems of email:



Benefits of email:

-It is easy to use and it helps us to manage our contacts, send mails quickly, maintain our mail history, store the required information, etc.

-Speed: The e-mail is delivered instantly, anywhere across the globe. This means it is easy to communicate with friends & family all of the work and get quick replies. There is no other service that matches the speed of email

-Easy to prioritize: Since spam blokers and filters on email systems it has become easy to prioritize them and ignore unwanted mails

-Reliable & secure: As more things are being done to improve the security of emailing it means it is becoming a safe way of communicating

-Advertising tool: Many individuals and companies are using e-mails to advertise their products, services, etc.



Problems of email:

-Viruses: These are computer programs having the potential to harm a computer system. Ones you open certain emails there is the potential for your computer date and software to be harmed.

-Spam: E-mails when used to send unsolicited messages and unwanted advertisements create nuisance and is termed as Spam. This becomes annoying to recieve as it takes time to delete these emails and so it has become necessary to block or filter the unwanted e-mails by means of spam filters

-Hacking: The act of breaking into computer security is termed as hacking. After the e-mail is sent and before it is received by the desired recipient, it "bounces" between servers located in different parts of the world. Hence, the e-mail can be hacked by a professional hacker. This becomes a problem when someone else can access your personal files & information

-Crowded inbox: Over a period of time, the e-mail inbox may get crowded with mails. It becomes difficult for the user to manage such a huge chunk of mails.



News stories concerning 'emails':



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1279396/Jealous-barrister-Aisha-Bijlani-lost-33m-race-claim-sent-alarming-abusive-emails-ex-lover-model-girlfriend.html

A barrister who referred to herself as the sent abusive emails to her former lover after he started dating a German model





http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1171350/Cyberstalker-threatened-rape-ITV-newsreader-weather-girl-jailed.html

A 'cyberstalker' who terrorised a newsreader and TV weathergirl with sick emails including threats to rape them was today jailed for four years.