Email+(social+software)

Introduction
Email can be regarded as one of the earliest forms of social software. Email has a number of features which class it as social software including:
 * the ability to communicate directly with someone
 * the ability to communicate with many people at the same time using multiple recipients and the cc: field
 * mailing lists
 * the use of contact lists and address books

Task
Write a short sentence explaining each of the following terms in relation to email:
 * reply
 * forward
 * recipient
 * mailing list
 * address book
 * cc
 * bcc
 * attachments
 * spam filter
 * signature

Task
Give 2 advantages of email as a communication tool Give 2 disadvantages of email as a communication tool

Assessment
This task can be one of your three assessments for Assessment 3.

Carry out the following:
 * Prepare a new email message addressed to 3 friends with one as the recipient, 1 in the cc field and one in the bcc field
 * Add some text to the message and include an attachment
 * Before sending the message, take a screenshot of the email message