What is Electronic Mail?
An e-mail address is read from left to right. For example:
johndoe@widgets.com
- "johndoe" is the name of the person sending or
receiving the message; this is referred to as the username.
- "widgets" is part of the domain name of the
organization
- "com" is also part of the domain name and
indicates that widgets is a commercial organization.
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