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OCR: 392 CHAPTER SECTION D E-mail THE INTERNET REALLY TOOK OFF when people discovered electronic mail More than 200 billion e-mail messages speed over the Internet each day E-mail, which derived from the term electronic mail can refer to a single message or to the entire system of computers pue software that transmits, receives and stores electronic messages In this section of the chapter you get some background information about how e-mail works -in particular, the difference between Web-based e-mail and traditional client- t-based e-mail. E-mail labs at the end of the chapter provide hands-on overviews how to read, compose send, and reply to e-mail messages E-MAIL OVERVIEW Who can use e-mail? Any person with an e-mail account can send and receive e-mail. An e-mail account provides access to a ...