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Electronic mail is a form of store-and-forward computer-based messaging that
enables a user to send text messages from a personal computer over a data
network (such as the Internet) to one or more
recipients, who collect the messages from their "mailbox" on a central server
using their own personal computer or workstation. Access to email is becoming
widespread in many countries, through institutional and corporate networks or
Internet service providers. As network bandwidth and personal computer
processing power increases, so does the ability to attach files to email
messages, ranging from formatted documents to sound and graphics and even video
files. Email can be used both for one-to-one and for one-to-many communication
(through email distribution lists) and thus can support group interaction. For
example, a tutor can use email to easily send the same message to every student
in a group, and a group of students can use email to work together on an
assignment.
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