Electronic postmen work faster and more precisely ordinary
The most common way of communication between people on the Internet is e-mail (e-mail). She was one of the earliest services of the world network. Automation is the greatest advantage of electronic services over conventional, including postal ones. Each service, even electronic, has its pros and cons. You just need to choose what is right for you.
Owls, pigeons and bats
It was difficult for a person in those distant times when letters were delivered for months. When people died during the delivery of one message, for example, they could execute a messenger who brought bad news. And what distances had to be overcome on foot or on a donkey to ancient postmen!
Particularly “advanced” ancient citizens used the work of various animals and birds: pigeons, raven. Citizens who also considered themselves sorcerers resorted to the help of owls and bats (for example, for the secrecy of information, the mice are not visible at night). There were difficulties, birds could get lost or a dinner of some predator. Therefore, the main “load” nevertheless put ordinary people on their shoulders, able to move relatively quickly and remember more than one address where it was necessary to deliver messages.
The image of the postal triple with a postal coachman is forever imprinted on the pages of classical literature, captured in paintings and in films. And the ships ...
The postmen of our time also have to promise many addresses, while carrying a heavy bag with newspapers and letters.
Even the most urgent postal message that a person is technically capable is delivered by a special express mail on an airplane and travels, depending on the distance, from one to several days. And for expensive.
To the aid (and, perhaps, to replace) to the postal workers in our age of “high” electronic technologies, the Internet came up and its integral service - e -mail.
Email significantly accelerated (up to several seconds) the process of transmitting information over huge distances (from one continent to another), thereby making a complete revolution in this area. Now people can simply correspond with each other how to talk on the phone, not expecting the months of answers and almost free. On one condition: both the sender and the addressee must have access to e-mail: either at home, or at work, or, in the end, in the Internet cafe, many of which were “raised” precisely on the provision of this service.
E -mailing on the Internet is engaged in special postal servers. Such a server can be both a specially selected computer and a program, that is, one nodal computer that performs the functions of several servers and provides the operation of various Internet services. At the same time, it can remain a universal computer on which other intellectual tasks can be performed, even “drive” the games.
Postal servers receive messages from customers and send them along the chain to the postal servers of the addresses where these messages accumulate. When setting a connection between the addressee and its mail server, the address received to the addressee’s computer is automatically transmitted. And you get a letter.
Folk rumor quickly came up with an English analogue for English e-mail: “soap”. This slang uses the majority of youth.
All faces are familiar! ..
Since the services of most electronic postal services are free (except for the money going to pay for the Internet traffic), anyone who has even temporary access can use it. | | As a rule, people “turn” an electronic box for themselves where for the first time they saw the phrase to their crazy joy: “Free mail”. This most often happens when using search engines1, which, almost all, provide similar services. | | For example, mail at Yandex ( www.mail.yandex.ru ) is very popular. Everything in Russian (like the rest of Russian -speaking postal services), simple registration, the site quickly works (according to our observation, no one has yet complained). 10 megabytes of free space on the mail server are provided for the accumulation of messages (this volume is enough to store a fair amount of letters and even with images). If you have a mobile phone, it is possible to read your mail without even using the computer. “Yandex” allows you to configure “your favorite postal program”, for example, The Bat! (by the way about bats) or Outlook, and work with letters, saving money, "leaving for the vastness" of the Internet. | | The next most popular among search engines that provide messages sending services can be called the mail "Rambler" ( www.rambler.ru ). But this mail recently began to cause complaints, however, like the search system itself. Repair work on the post server has become more frequent. When “entering” the main page of the Rambler mail, some long file begins to automatically load into the computer, which is better not to touch, so as not to waste time. You can “get” by mail only through registration (purchase of a mailing address) or immediately to your mailbox, indicating the password. | | The postal service of “Search barrier” “360” ( www.360.ru/mail/pop3.htm ) is less known, but it is worth telling about it. The site works excellently, short registration, 20 megabytes of free space for storing messages are provided, although this size is hardly necessary: you can correspond with volumes of letters by saving them in such a box (there are more: 25 megabytes on Userline ( notoSerline.ru ), where you can increase to 100 for a fee). In addition, this service officially declares to provide users with a 128-bit regime of information encoding (usually 40-bit), which is usually used by large corporations to protect their correspondence. Although an ordinary citizen does not need such a protection system in principle, it is all the more pleasant to feel his safety. | | In addition to postal services presented on search engines, there are separate mail servers. We can say that the mail is as it is. Mail for soap! | The most popular postal service, which is used by a great many people, is considered “mail.ru” ( www.mail.ru ). It is provided with a relatively small box (5 megabytes). However, it is simple and convenient to handle. Some "Mail.ru" does not suit (complain of constant malfunctions in work). As a rule, such “malfunctions” are called the client’s release from his address to someone else's or in someone else's address book, which is very unpleasant. But the mail as mail works satisfactorily. | | The next in the mention in the rune of the postal service@Land.ru ( www.land.ru ) proposes to collect correspondence from other servers, but does not guarantee their safety. Unlike many other services, this warns that your mailbox (with a volume of 10 megabytes) will be removed from the server if it is not checked for more than six months. @Land.ru contains a search engine throughout the Internet. | | Another famous BeeP.ru service ( www.beep.ru ) is noteworthy in that it makes it possible to copy your mail to a pager (alas, not to Pskov) and a mobile phone. Full work is provided through a cell phone and sending SMS messages. As in “@Land.ru”, it is notified of the shutdown of the box during its non -use, but after three months. There are opportunities for collective work and communication, for example, the possibility of simultaneous access for all members of the group (public or private) to an additional mailbox. At the time of writing, this server did not temporarily register new users, but worked for previously registered ones, although the inscription “Access Denied” is visible on all pages (accessible is refused). | | The server is “Free@mail.ru” ( www.freom@mail.ru ) is distinguished by a pleasant lack of advertising and news on the first page similar to a mail envelope. This service is less popular, although a lot of people use its services. After registering a new address, access to it is set within an hour, unlike other postal servers, where you can get on an open box immediately after registration. But nothing suspicious was noticed with messages. | | The postal service "E-@mail" ( www.e- mail) is unique in that it provides the possibility of checking the spelling of outgoing letters. Here is a very fast registration (only three lines are filled: the name of the box, password and confirmation of the password). | | “Mailgate.ru” ( www.msx.ru ) and “ebox.ru” ( www.ebox.ru ) are distinguished by detailed and serious “registration agreements”. These servers are equally convenient in navigation, but the Ebox.ru server is loaded for a long time. In addition, it is proposed (what a pleasant service!) "Register a mailing address to any of the domains (Putin.ru)." At the same time, there is a separate postal site with the same name ( www.mail.putin.ru ) and, apparently, also from the creators of the site "Ebox.ru". The gypsum busts of the leaders are replaced by the posts of the same name. Also a kind of progress. Artem Koryushkin.
