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Intro to the Net - Day 2
Goals
In this session you will:
- Learn the difference between web-based and POP-based email
- Learn about the major web-based email systems
- Learn about the major POP clients
- Download, Install, and Configure an email client
- write, deliver, pick up, reply to and forward email.
- Make additional mail folders
- Make a .signature file
- Send a small file attachment
Email Systems
The older and more powerful way of doing email is with the traditional
client/server model (the POP protocol for mail). In this model you can work
offline after downloading the mail to your workstation.
Pros: orthodox, fast, more configurable
Cons: need to have a client to read mail from elsewhere
(usually), have to set up client
what email looks like
Using good style is imperative. (other examples)
Common email clients are
- Pegasus
- Eudora (Lite and Pro)
- Various Microsoft clients like Outlook Express and Exchange
- built-in Netscape mail client
The newer, more-limited web-based email model.
Pros: Can be read from anywhere
Cons: Difficult to use, not easily configurable, security
issues?
email client setup
The critical information will be provided by your ISP: username, password,
domain name, incoming (pop3) and outgoing (smtp) mailservers.
Email Skills
- first off: tighten up OE
Tools | Options | Compose will vary depending on your version
- turn off (deselect) "business cards" and "stationary" for both mail and news
Tools | Options | Send will vary depending on your version
- select "save copy"
- deselect "send immediately"
- deselect "automatically put people"
- select "include message"
- deselect "reply to messages"
- mail and news format as "plain text"
Tools | Options | Security will vary depending on your version
- move OE to the "restricted zone", then tune restricted zone in IE or Control Panel
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- do not store password in the program
- Write new mail
- Send, pick up mail
- reply (watch for the >quotemarkers!)
- forward
- make additional folders
- make a .signature file (SPECIAL | SIGNATURES?)
- file attach a SMALL file
- use mail filtering to reduce spam
Use telnet to read mail and do other amusing things
Use FTP to move files to a remote server
Use an IRC server
Read and post USEnet messages around the world
telnet and telnet
- use the built-in telnet client.
Start -> Run telnet [hostname]
- you will "land" in your home directory (~)
- common commands
ls lists files in the directory (like "dir")
pwd shows the present working directory
cd change directory (like "cd")
mv move/rename file (like "move" and "ren")
cp copy file (like "copy")
rm remove file (like "del")
chmod change permissions
- further reading:
http://www.geektech.com/telnet.htm
- setting up your webspace
USEnet
Usenet (aka "news", "newsgroups") is a global equivalent of your work
or church "bulletin board". You post messages (which look suspiciously
like email) and they are distribute around the world. It can be messy and,
like the rest of the net, content is not regulated.
The most interesting and useful thing about newsgroups is that they're grouped
by topic or subject matter. So if you like cats you might read:
news:rec.pets.cats.misc.
Accessing the news
- web-based news like www.dejanews.com
- client/server model
- download a client
- you will need a news server like lace.colorado.edu or whatever your ISP tells
you
- get a list of groups
- "subscribe" to some
- read
- post a new message or followup a post to boulder.test
FTP
File Transfer Protocol is (judged by bandwidth) the most common Internet
service.
There are two main ways to use FTP:
- anonymous ftp: logging in anonymously to get
publicly-available files (e.g., software downloads)
- login as a user: logging in with a username/password
to work with your own files (no one can get there without a user/pass)
Using the FTP client
- download and set up a client, or use the built-in client.
Start ->
Run -> ftp [hostname]
- you need a hostname, user, and pass from your isp
- log in and navigate (anonymously, then as a user landing in your home
directory ~)
- Make a directory called "public_html" (or other name as specified by your
webmaster)
- cd to the new dir, and upload your file
- further reading:
http://www.geektech.com/ftphelp.htm
IRC
Internet Relay Chat is what many think of when they imagine the Net: people
doing real-time chat at their keyboards.
Homework
Read ahead about email and newsgroups.
http://www.mousetrap.net/net.introduction/day2.html
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Reminders
- Classroom temperature can be wildly variable. Dress lightly and bring layers.
- your username is based on the class title and the last two digits of your workstation's hostname.
- remember to take your work with you.
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