Understanding E-Mail Addresses - HP Compaq Presario,Presario 5013 Quick Start Manual

E-mail, cont.
To send and receive
e-mail, you need an e-mail
address so that your
Internet Service Provider
(ISP) will know where to
pick up and deliver mail.
See also ...
The My Presario—Learning
More CD has information on
finding e-mail addresses.
Did you know ...
E-mail extensions identify the
type of server where an
organization resides. Some of
the most common e-mail
extensions and their
descriptions are as follows:
Extension Description
.org organization
.com commercial
.net network
.edu education
.gov government
agencies
.mil military
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Understanding E-mail Addresses

Some ISPs allow you to pick an e-mail address, but others require
you to follow a set pattern:
➜
your name
➜
@
➜
ISP server name
ISP names can be longer and more complex, but basically
anything to the right of the @sign is the ISP server name and
anything to the left is the user name. For example:
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