That is where the trouble begins. What we assumed was simple plainly is deceptive. Whether we are talking about regular mail delivery or electronic delivery, Mail can become a very complex subject. It was bad enough in its regular form. In the electronic form it can sing to you, read aloud, run a movie, or cause all manner of havoc on the average computer.
Email is older than the personal computer but it is still a youngster with only decades of history.
Yet, those decades are filled with the development of some of the most complex technologies known to man. The rate of people coming to the Internet is growing faster daily, and the most popular usage of the Net is, and has always been, Email. These facts, however, in no way simplify the technology that it takes to run the Email system on the Internet. It is an age-old problem. Those things that seem simple usually are not.