P PRODUCT 3: Email
and Forum
Electronic
mail, also known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author
to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other
computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the
recipient both be online at the same time, in common with instant messaging.
Today's email systems are based on a store-and-forward model. Email servers
accept, forward, deliver and store messages. Neither the users nor their
computers are required to be online simultaneously; they need connect only
briefly, typically to an email server, for as long as it takes to send or
receive messages.
An Internet email message
consists of three components, the message envelope, the message header,
and the message body.
An Internet forum, or message
board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in
the form of posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are
at least temporarily archived. Also, depending on the access level of a user or
the forum set-up, a posted message might need to be approved by a moderator
before it becomes visible.
Forums have a specific set of
jargon associated with them; e.g. a single conversation is called a "thread".
A discussion forum is
hierarchical or tree-like in structure: a forum can contain a number of sub
forums, each of which may have several topics. Within a forum's topic, each new
discussion started is called a thread, and can be replied to by as many people
as so wish.
Depending on the forum's
settings, users can be anonymous or have to register with the forum and then
subsequently log in in order to post messages. On most forums, users do not
have to log in to read existing messages.
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