If you are connected to a network, or if you use a bulletin board or electronic mail system, then you have a personal account. Rather like your bank account, this has a password that only you know, together with an account name that identifies you. Your account will also hold records of your rights to access parts of a network and will store any electronic mail that you receive. If you are a new user on a network, you will have to ask the person controlling the network to create an account for you.
