Despite the razzle-dazzle appeal of the World Wide Web's multimedia content, by far the most used and most useful feature of the Internet is plain ol' e-mail. With
E-Mail For Dummies -- now completely updated for this second edition -- you discover everything you need to know about the world's fastest-growing means of communication. Thanks to a Net-savvy team of authors, you find out to set up popular e-mail software like Eudora, Microsoft Exchange, Netscape Navigator, and Pine. You get tips on managing your address book and automatically sorting and filtering messages so you can save time and get to the important ones right away. You also master the art of successfully sending and receiving attachments, including graphic, sound, word processing, and spreadsheet files. Best of all, to get you up to speed quickly, you get a bonus CD-ROM containing AT&T WorldNetSM Service for Internet access, along with Mac and PC Web browsing software; Windows shareware, freeware, and demos such as Free Agent, Hot Dog, and ThunderBYTE Antivirus; and BBEdit Lite, Anarchie, and Graphic Converter for Macintosh.
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Browsers, e-mail programs, or online services turn out even E-MAIL FOR DUMMIES. But they might hit electronic snags: updates might be stored like files so channels missing updates while the computer is disconnected might freeze or lock the screen by updating with the reconnection. There might be online rush hours and waiting lines: conferencing goes faster with the less error-checking ASCII text files and slower with executable and image binary files. Computer glitches might hold up messages between different systems. There might also be a lack of privacy: employers might read messages without employees agreeing or knowing and without breaking any laws. There might even be a lack of security: Active X controls might interact with the Active X support feature in a web browser to locate and upload financial information from a computer. Messages might be intercepted while passing through multiuser and network-connected computers without firewalls and randomly selected private and public keys or pass phrases or words; or while printing to remote laser printers. Messages might not delete because they copy across computers and might end up archived on computer backup tapes. Authors John R Levine et al lead readers through the obstacle course and on to David Ebner's THE TIGHTWAD'S GUIDE TO FREE E-MAIL AND OTHER COOL INTERNET STUFF and David Wood's PROGRAMMING INTERNET E-MAIL.
