E-Mail Companion: Communications Effectively Via the Internet and Other Global Networks Book

Join the tens of millions of people who have discovered that electronic mail offers a much more convenient way to communicate conveniently and effectively.

In The E-Mail Companion, e-mail experts John S. Quarterman and Smoot Carl-Mitchell show you how to use electronic mail to communicate with people throughout the world without leaving your chair, picking up the telephone, or stamping a letter. In clear and concise language they explain how to:

• compose and reply to e-mail effectively
• send mail through the worldwide matrix of computer networks, including the Internet, BITNET, America Online, CompuServe, UUCP, FidoNet, and many others
• deal with mailer demons, the electronic equivalent of "return to sender, address unknown"
• take advantage of mailing lists--the newsletters, gossip columns, and trade journals of the online world
• find people's e-mail addresses
• find and retrieve files and documents.

Here is expert advice on how to communicate worldwide without leaving your chair, picking up your telephone, or stamping a letter. Whether new to e-mail or just learning how to use it more effectively, this tutorial/reference is the book all users need to keep beside their computer always.