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Sending Email and Attaching a File

While sending emails are relatively easy, the hard part lies within how we use email.  Most first-time users often learn "netetiquette" through trial and error.  To prevent any mishaps, please review the following websites:

"Netetiquette: Guidelines for Proper Behavior on the Internet" by Boston College:
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/tvp/IT/netiquette/netiquette.shtml

"The Net: User Guidelines and Netetiquette" by Arlene Rinaldi
(see Electronic Communication section)
http://www.fau.edu/netiquette/net/index.html

Quick tips include:

• Avoid ALL CAPS in emails as they are considered equivalent to SHOUTING
• Be professional and careful what you say about others. Consider waiting a day or two before sending a message when you are feeling emotional. Email is easily forwarded.
• It is considered extremely rude to forward personal email to mailing lists without the original author's permission.
• Be careful when using sarcasm and humour. Without face-to-face communications your joke may be
  viewed as criticism. When being humorous, use emoticons to express humour:     :-)

In this lesson, you will learn how to compose an email and attach a file.  You will use this skill to submit your assignment as an email attachment. If you are sending a file you have open and recently worked on, be sure to save your changes, or the recent changes you made will not be included in the file when it is sent as an email attachment.

Click on the name of the program you are using to view the tutorial on sending an email and attaching a file, then return to this page to continue with the lesson.

• Hotmail
• UVIC Webmail
• Outlook or Outlook Express
• Eudora or Eudora Light
• Netscape Mail

Please continue to the next section of this module is on backing up email and attachments.

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Revised: September 23, 2002.