Module 2 – Email Task 3-5

3. In what ways can you ensure that an attachment you send will be easily opened by the receiver?
Due to the various operating systems, platforms and software applications that could potentially be used to open an attachment you have sent, it is necessary to take the following precautions in order to maximise the chances of [...]

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Module 2 – Email Task 2

2. In what cases would you find it useful to use the ‘cc’, ‘bcc’ and ‘reply all’ functions of email?
CC (Carbon Copy):
The ‘cc’ email function is useful when an email being sent to a recipient may also hold some informational value, or interest, though most likely to a lesser extent than that of the main [...]

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Module 2 – Email Task 1

1. What information about a user’s email, the origin of a message, and the path it took, can you glean from an email message?
To most people, an email contains the usual information displayed by your average email application; sender, receiver, subject, message body, and so on, yet each email contains much more data.
Each email message [...]

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Setting up Gmail and Outlook 2007

In order to attempt the email tasks in Module 2, I’ve decided to set up a Gmail account. I have Microsoft Outlook 2007, so rather than use the Gmail web interface I’ve hooked up Gmail to Outlook using the IMAP protocol which keeps everything synchronised nicely.
To do this I found a help article about setting [...]

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Module 1 – Internet Tools

Traceroute provides a fascinating insight into the paths which internet page queries take via various paths around the globe.
Interestingly, a recent edition of The Age reported that several underwater telephone and internet cables had been damaged, prompting me to think that this would impact on the traceroute results, especially since one of the cables links [...]

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