| email
Whenever you send messages to people using a computer and they read it
later, you've sent a piece of email. You can send email in several
ways--across a local area network, via the Internet, or through an online
service like CompuServe or America Online--and you can send it to a single
recipient or to a whole slew of them. But all email behaves pretty much
the same way: you send it to a virtual mailbox, and the recipient has to
pick it up or can use software that does it automatically. |