Electronic Mail

To use electronic mail (e-mail) you need to know how to use a mail program. We have two of these:

• mm
• mail

You also need to know the electronic address of the persons whom you wish to write. These can often be guessed by imitating the examples below:

• aaron --- the "login name" of someone on the local net (the Mathematics Department)
• c-gcf --- the login name of Carl Friedrich Gauss, a student taking a math course. Such login names begin with "c-" and follow the indicated pattern: last initial, first initial, middle initial. If there were several c-gcf's, they would be named c-gcf1, c-gcf2, etc.
• aturing@cs.utah.edu --- a fictitious member of the Computer Science Department at the University of Utah.
• pf@math.princeton.edu --- a fictitous member (Pierre Fermat) of the Mathematics Department at Princeton University.
• laplace@nebula.polytechnique.fr --- a fictitous member (P.S. Laplace) of the Ecole Polytechnique in France. Note the "fr" suffix.