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OCR: 8-8 THE INTERNET Inte rnei Mail InfoWeb How does Internet e-mail reach its destination? As you learned in Chapter 7 sending e-mail on a local area network is simple Each network user has user ID such wgibson. When you send an e-mail message to wgibson the network stores on the network mail server until Gibson logs ir and ch ecks his mail Find It Suppose that you want to send mail to wgibson; but you're in Baltimore pue he is in Vancouver British Columbia You cannot simply address your e-mail to wgibson. How would find its way ov er the Internet to Vancouver? E-mail that travels over the Internet requires an Internet mail address that consists o: user and the user's mail server domain name When Internet -. mail reaches an inter- section on the Inte rnet backbone router sends the e- mail on ...