Test your knowledge of email

Instructions

Now it's time to see how much you've learnt about email.

Read the questions presented below and attempt to answer them based on what you learned in the last section of TONIC.If you find you can't answer a question, you can always use the Contents page for this module to go directly to particular topic before making your response.

When you have answered all the questions select the link "Am I Right?" to view the correct answers.

To try interactive quizzes, use the online TONIC tutorial at http://www.netskills.ac.uk/TONIC

Question Number:1

Question:

Which of the following is true for e-mail?:

1. You can use it to send messages to other e-mail users.

2. It is useful only for personal communication.

3. You can send the one message to many people simultaneously.

4. Plain e-mail is a secure way of sending highly sensitive information.

5. The further e-mail is sent, the more it costs.

Question Number:2

Question:

If you were looking for a colleague's e-mail address, which of the following methods might you consider trying?

1. Ask them.

2. Look in the phone book.

3. Use an internet directory service.

4. Search the website of their institution.

5. Search the JSICmail mailing lists.

The following four questions show some of the standard fields in an email message header. Match the description to the field.

Question Number:3

Question:

The mail program fills in this field for you.

1. Subject:

2. Cc:

3. From:

4. To:

Question Number:4

Question:

Despatch of message depends on a correct e-mail address here.

1. Subject:

2. Cc:

3. From:

4. To:

Question Number:5

Question:

Supplying this is an important point of netiquette.

1. Subject:

2. Cc:

3. From:

4. To:

Question Number:6

Question:

Additional address/s to which the message is to be sent.

1. Subject:

2. Cc:

3. From:

4. To:

Question Number:7

Question:

If you wished to e-mail a word-processed document to a colleague who has only a plain no-frills e-mail program, what would you need to do to the document first?

1. compress it

2. convert it to plain text

3. archive it

Question Number:8

Question:

The mailing list lis-link is run by JISCmail and has the following properties:

• list address: lis-link@jiscmail.ac.uk
• JISCmail (listserver) address: jiscmail@jiscmail.ac.uk
• list owner address: lis-link-request@jiscmail.ac.uk

1. lis-link@jiscmail.ac.uk

2. lis-link-request@jiscmail.ac.uk

3. jiscmail@jiscmail.ac.uk