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Gmail instead of student E-mail? (The P...
Published:Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:43:52 GMT
It's not a secret: Most PUC students do not check their PUC email. According to the SGA, a survey was sent out last semester about NetMail usage, in which students overwhelmingly ......
Gmail for iPhone gets 'never-ending' co...
Published:Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:59:19 GMT
Long-winded iPhone e-mail authors can tap, tap away in a new, automatically expanding window when composing mail from Gmail.com.......
T-Mobile pushes Motorola Cliq into wide...
Published:Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:10:26 GMT
The social fanatic's dream. That's the tag-line for the Cliq, a new smartphone built by Motorola – and T-Mobile is hoping it will be enough to pry a swath of young consumers awa......
Published on November 03, 2009 (Daily S...
Published:Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:07:42 GMT
The outlook for the third attempt to use an online elections system for the Associated Students (A.S.) elections in the past three years is optimistic, but no one is willing to sa......
'Stikk' to your commitments (Summit Dai...
Published:Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:35:54 GMT
'Stikk' to your commitments By Erin Pheil special to the daily Truly Helpful Site of the Week: Stickk.com I learned about this gem of a site while reading the book Nudge by Richar......
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Etymology

The word mail comes from the Medieval English word male (spelt that way until the 17th century), which was the term used to describe a traveling bag or pack. The French have a similar word, malle for a trunk or large box, and mála is the Irish for a bag. In the 1600s the word mail began to appear as a reference for a bag that contained letters: "bag full of letter" (1654). Over the next hundred years the word mail began to be applied strictly to the letters themselves, and the sack as the mailbag. In the 19th century the British usually referred to mail as being letters that were being sent abroad (i.e. on a ship), and post as letters that were for localized delivery; in the UK the Royal Mail delivers the post, while in the USA the US Postal Service delivers the mail. The term e-mail (short for "electronic mail") first appeared in 1982. The term snail-mail is a retronym that originated in 1983 to distinguish it from the quicker e-mail.


 
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