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This module made me look into my email account with a bit more depth, as I just use this mainly to exchange funnies with friends and some family, and also to get catalogues and news from companies which I have joined over the net. I have never really thought about it, I just log in and check my mail, trash what I don't want, send on the ones I like and leave the rest sitting there until I can be bothered going through them all and then I just end up trashing most of them anyway. So I looked into it, but haven't really changed anything, just thought about it. I suppose I'll get to it one day.
1. What information about a user's email, the origin of a message, and the path it took, can you glean from an email message?
I use Yahoo7 mail and have done for the past few years. As I share the computer with the rest of the family, I have to sign in each time I access my emails. After doing this, my opening page then welcomes me and tells me how many unread messages are in my inbox. This does not include my spam mail, only the inbox. The opening page also has the latest weather, and the forecast for the next couple of days, the news headlines and some advertisements.
Upon opening my Inbox, I can get a lot of information about a message without actually opening it. In the inbox is a list of emails, and has these headings:
From |Subject |Received |Size |Attachment |Flag
Senders Name as it Whatever sender Date & Time MB or KB a pic of a pic
appears in my has put in subject paperclip if flag or
address book line applicable dot
From here, I can choose to open an email, or leave it until later, or to trash is without opening it.
Once I have opened an email, the header shows me the following information:
Fw: Amazing Kazoo Player
Donna Elliott <delta.b@bigpond.com>
ViewTo:
Lurlene <ebborn@spiderweb.com.au>; Noela <noela72@westnet.com.au>; Sarah <sarahboody@yahoo.com.au>; Sandra <gsmurdochfamily@bigpond.com>; Janell <jpj.nt@bigpond.com>
This is where any attachments are located, so by clicking on the link, these can then be opened.
If this message has been forwarded, the following is generally at the top of the message:
---- Original Message -----
From: J & C Groves
To: Len and Glenys ; Donna Elliott ; Darryl Kylie Long
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 4:04 PM
Subject: Fw: Amazing Kazoo Player
----- Original Message -----
From: Eric and Kayley
To: Jodie Groves
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 7:39 PM
Subject: Fw: Amazing Kazoo Player
This information shows me that the message has been forwarded a couple of times before.
2. In what cases would you find it useful to use the 'cc', 'bcc' and 'reply all functions of email?
'cc' - Carbon Copy. Using this means that everybody the message is sent to can see who
else has received the message.
'bcc' - Blind Carbon Copy. This means that the receiver cannot see addresses of any
others who also receive the same message.
I do not have the bcc function set up in my email account, but I have no reason to use this function at the moment because I never have any messages which are case sensitive, or any addresses that I cannot disclose to others in my address book.
3. In what ways can you ensure that an attachment you send will be easily opened by the receiver?
The easiest way to ensure that an attachment is able to be opened by the receiver is to make yourself familiar with the programs that many of your contacts have. If you are not sure, or the contact is someone unfamiliar to you, play it safe and format the attachment as ASC11, aka 'plain text' or MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions).
4. What sorts of filters or rules do you have set up, and for what purpose?
The only rules I have in place for my email is that the inbox only receive messages from those in my contact list and also no images to be shown in the spam folder. This means that everything that comes to my inbox is from someone I know, and it does not take as long for the mail to load in the spam folder without images. This is perhaps not so important now that I have broadband, but was when on dialup.
5. How have you organised the folder structure of your email and why?
I have only one folder, which is called 'messages' and it has no organisation whatsoever. I occasionally go through this folder and trash or print out some of the messages, but have yet to use my email for anything of great importance that needs to be kept.
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