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Definitions of email address:

The email address for contact of the creator, editor, site administrator, manager, information desk, user support agent, etc. or other entity responsible for answering questions and correspondence regarding the resource.
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Sometimes called one's "login." A name that shows which user you are and from what site you are writing. Example: sak@prairienet.org says that I am user "sak" "at" Prairienet, an organization (org). Other endings are edu (education), com (commercial site), gov (government), mil (military), net (network).
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An email address is made up of several parts. The first part of the address, the username, identifies a unique user on a server. The @ symbol separates the username from the host name. The host name uniquely identifies the server computer and is the last part of the Internet email address. The three-letter suffix in the host name identifies the kind of organization operating the server. The most common suffixes are: .com (commercial), .edu (educational), .gov (government), .mil (military), . ...
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The address used to sent and receive email. The email address contains your username, the @ symbol, and the domain name ( example: jdoe@usd.edu ). This is read: jdoe at usd dot edu.
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This is where electronic mail is received. It is a combination of a username and a hostname, such as 'yourname@alamedanet.net' or 'someone.else@hotmail.com'
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An e-mail address identifies a location to which e-mail can be delivered. A modern Internet e-mail address (using SMTP) is a string of the form jsmith@example.com. It should be read as "jsmith at example dot com". The part before the @ sign is the local-part of the address, often the username of the recipient, and the part after the @ sign is a domain name which can be looked up in the Domain Name System to find the mail exchange servers accepting e-mail for that address.
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