This document discusses email options and services including: - The history of bulletin board systems (BBS) which were early computer-based messaging systems dating back to 1972. - Email service providers (ESP) which offer email marketing services including tools to send emails, update subscriber lists, and provide analytics on email campaigns. - Several ESP vendors are mentioned: AT Mail, EMUmail, and EnterGroup which offer different pricing and hosting options. - Free internet-based email services are discussed along with protocols like IMAP for retrieving email and clients like Thunderbird and Outlook Express.

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3. Computer based messaging.

4. 1972 in Berkeley, California.

6. MainFrame.

9. Forums, chat rooms.

10. Blogging

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13. http://www.os2bbs.com

16. Updating of the subscriber list to suppress those requesting to be unsubscribed.

18. AT Mail

19. EMU Mail

22. EnterGroup EnterGroup provides a wide variety of hosted email services. EnterGroup also provides a pass-through solution with user-specifiable pricing

23. Internet Based free Email Advantages- Can be accessed from any internet connected computer in the world. Unlimited Storage (AOL Mail, Yahoo Mail) Automatic Forwarding. Integrated with IM service. Virus Scanning Import Mail and Contacts (Gmail) SMS Text Messaging (Yahoo Mail)

24. Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval- Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) Post Office Protocol Email Clients- Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook Express

26. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysop

27. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textfiles.com