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Email questions: Q. Please explain about email accounts and naming conventions for them: A. In order for an email to get to you it needs a reference point. This reference point is the '@something.com' (or .net or .org or .ca). It is a way for information to be routed to the correct place. Anything to the left of the @symbol can be defined by whoever is providing the domain (domain= the right hand portion of the email address after the @ symbol). So consider the following analogy, 'myname@company.com', the myname portion would be roughly equivalent to your street address, and the company portion would be roughly equivalent to your city and country (with postal code through in for good measure). So as a result of this, whoever is providing you with email services can only give you an address within any domain it hosts. Most ISP's host more than one domain, but typically restrict the mail to either a single domain such as 'myname@ispdomain.com' or if they are hosting your web site will allow mail (of course at an extra charge) in the form of 'myname@mycompanydomain.com'.
Given the above you could have through telus (for example) the following examples: 'anything@telusplanet.net' ( as long as what you pick hasn't already been used) 'my.name@telusplanet.net' (again as long as it hasn't been used already) Through Chinook, we can offer the following: 'anything@chinookcomputers.net' 'anything@chinook-computers.com' 'anything@quickerstar.com' There are also web based email accounts that don't depend on the actual ISP involved, for example you can sign up for hotmail, which is 'anything@hotmail.com', but of course if you went for 'Tom@hotmail.com' you might find that you would have to pick 'tom99@hotmail.com' because so many other people tried to register something similar. |