Today there are millions of nodes around the world with the number growing exponentially. Germantown Academy is directly on the Internet. There are several ways of getting and using information from the Internet. Electronic Mail Electronic mail is the Internet equivalent of personal mail sent via the Post Office, and it is perhaps the most widely used feature of the Internet. Through the use of a person's Internet address, you can send a message around the world and the recipient can read it at leisure seconds later.
Email is an easy and efficient way to send information to another person.
Any message sent to a mailing list is sent to all the people on the list, who can receive hundreds of messages, in their mailbox , in a short time. Mailing lists make it easy and efficient to share information with a large group of people. These could be read by literally hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Newsgroups are available on over 2,600 topics ranging from cats to k12 education to Icelandic culture. To subscribe to newsgroups your access provider must give you a news feed.