CS456/556 - Internet Services - Week 1 Assignment

1. "What is Internet"?
2. How has the Internet affected your life?
3. What is the Internet becoming?
4. Who will be using the Internet in ten years? What will they do with it?
5. Think about the social impact of the Internet. What issues does the Internet raise for government? for individual users?

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6. Before a user can receive electronic mail, the user needs a _______________________ into which the computer places incoming messages.
7. An electronic mail message resembles an office _______________________
8. Each electronic mail message begins with a header that has lines labeled ________, ________, ________, and ________
9. Who is permitted to extract messages from your mailbox and read them?
10. Who is permitted to deposit messages in your mailbox?
11. Who receives a copy of an e-mail message that is sent to a public mailing list?
12. To obtain help with the e-mail system on a remote computer, one can send e-mail to _______________________ on that computer.
13. Try sending an electronic mail message to (a) a non- existent user on a valid computer and (b) a non-existent computer. In which case do you receive an error message faster? Explain why.
14. Look at the header lines in e-mail messages you receive and make a list of the header lines other than From , To , Cc , and Date.
15. Send a message to listserv@vm.cc.purdue.edu that contains the single word help . The reply will contain instructions that tell you how to obtain more information. Follow the instructions and obtain a short description of all available mailing lists.

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16. An article submitted to a newsgroup has the same format as an ___________ ____________ message.
17. If a person edits all submissions before they appear on an electronic discussion, the discussion is said to be _______________________
18. When someone at one site submits an article to a newsgroup and three people at another site read the submission, the network news system usually sends _______________________ copy(s) to the other site.
19. A site's source of network news articles is called it's _______________________
20. A user must _____________ to a newsgroup before reading articles. If a user decides to stop participating in a newsgroup, the user must _____________
21. Discuss the websites from Chapter 2's notes.

1. Conduct a poll of friends, relatives, and colleagues to see how many have heard about the Internet, how many have used it, and how many have a basic knowledge of what the Internet is or how it works.
2. What could you say to convince someone to pay for electronic mail service?
3. Show http://tile.net/lists/ to your friends. How many can spot at least five topics of interest? How many can spot at least two? Can you find someone who is uninterested in all the topics?
4. What restrictions, if any, should be placed on the contents of news articles? If the Internet becomes available in every school, will society want to restrict the articles that young children can read?
5. In a separate posting, make sure to introduce yourself to the class in the discussion group.

The following assignment is intended to show you the basics of e-mail and listservs.

1. Subscribe to a commercial e-mail service (i.e. hotmail, yahoo) and send me (summers_wayne@ColumbusState.edu) an e-mail from this account.

2. Send me an e-mail through WebCT.

3. Obtain an account on cs.nmhu.edu or nmhu.edu and send me an e-mail from this account.

4. Send me an e-mail where you compare and contrast these three types of e-mail systems. Make sure to discuss the different servers and clients involved with each.

5. Find a listserv discussion group that interests you and subscribe to it. In your e-mail to me, identify what discussion group you subscribed to. (many listservs are described at tile.net

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