Labs

Lab 3.2: You Never Write

One of the forces that helped to popularize the Internet, and ultimately led to the development of the WWW, was the interest in and demand for electronic mail. Today, "e-mail" is an accepted and useful means for communication between computers located in people's homes, businesses, and dorm rooms. In fact, public forums have even been developed so that "e-mailers" can be in touch with large groups of people all at once, and can participate in virtual, online, group discussions through news groups, discussion groups, interest groups, and the like.

Since WWW users tend to be people who are predisposed to using e-mail, it is not surprising that the lines between these communication services (Web servers, mail servers, news groups) have already blurred. Indeed, many browsers have built-in mail and news group facilities.

Use whatever e-mail service is available to you to do the following:

  1. Send an e-mail message to your instructor telling her/him how much you are enjoying this course (it doesn't hurt!)
  2. We have established a discussion group for AE Online. To get to the discussion group, simply follow this link. Then, do the following:


  3. Read some of the postings from other AE Online users.
  4. Post a message of your own to the group describing your experience to date in using AE Online.

Note that the discussion group uses WWW forms, instead of e-mail, to post your message to a central repository on the server, instead of sending the message once and having it inaccessible to future readers.

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