2024 EDPM Assignment 1
2024 EDPM Assignment 1
Assignment One
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Description of Content
For this assignment, a manuscript was given to be typed in double line spacing,
using the Indented Style. There were corrections symbols/marks which were
Electronic mail
Ray Tomlinson is the inventor of the email. In 1971, he developed the system that was able
to send mail between users on different hosts across the ARPANET (Advance Research Projects
Today`s email systems are based on a store and forward model. Dedicated email servers
accepts, forward, delivers, and store messages. Persons can connect to the mail server or
Low cost
There is no direct cost associated with sending an email. The cost will be for Electricity and
Internet access. Hundreds of email can be sent worldwide for the cost of 1 item of local pasted
mail.
Speed of Delivery
Email is received almost immediately after it is sent, usually within minutes. If the delivery
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recipient’s , where as an item of postal mail would have to be sent as a separate item to each
recipient.
Various file types may be attached to email messages. This allows attachments continuation
text-based documents, graphics,, sound and video to be included. Compression features built
into the email software allow large files to be sent in a short time
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