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What is the difference between a web site address and an e-mail address?
Before trying to answer this question, let's look at the nature of the query: Ask someone who knows the answer and the response has a great chance to be unsatisfactory. The question is fundamental ... URLs, or web site addresses get exchanged all the time ... along with e-mail addresses.
The two items, URLs and e-mail addresses have a lot in common, and that is one of the biggest difficulties in explaining the difference: The words to describe each are likely similar. In many ways, we're looking at a question a lot like "What's the difference between a square and a rectangle?"
Now let's look at the reason even this introduction may have thrown us off the track of good communication:
"Telling someone how to tie a Windsor knot over the phone," is another flavor in this mix. Above, your correspondent took the question about web site address and e-mail address difference and suddenly mentioned "URL!"
Face to face, you might say, "what's a URL?" I've already said, "...or web site address," but look, our paths have diverged! You might think you have questions ... about the difference between this new: URL, and a web site address for instance ... but could this be a valid, meaningful part of the quest?
"URL" stands for "Uniform Resource Locator." The web site address may fairly and often simply be called "URL"
What's your URL?
What's the URL?
Here's the URL.
You could substitute t
he
phrase "web site address" in any of the previous 3 uses of "URL,"
without changing the meaning.
In many references to web site addresses it is more precise and quicker to refer to them as URLs
But you'll also often hear:
What's your E-mail address?
What's the E-mail address?
Here's the E-mail address.
Is this the same as a web site address, or ... come on ... a URL?
What is your e-mail address? An e-mail address to us, (you and me) is a string of text which identifies a place where e-mail can be reposited. It's like the name of a mail slot on your front door. Not your family name, but some identifying formula, like, country, state, city, street and number.
OR
It could be expressed in terms of longitude and latitude ...
Just as long as
it is unique.
If you click this button:
to send club services e-mail, and your browser is configured appropriately
to do so, a window will open on your screen, and you will be set to send
me e-mail ... just by typing in your message.
"Take a long walk on a short pier," you might tell me for example. When you send that message, it travels through chains of servers the way a shipment is routed through UPS hubs. Your e-mail message to me is accessed ... or not ... when it appears on the screen here. Try it. I'll probably write back to you.
That's e-mail. The form gives itself away as an e-mail address, (as opposed to a URL) by the "@:" Clicking on this link gives the same result as the red "contact us" button above: Aaaclub_services@Yahoo.com
So, a URL is?
If the giveaway you're talking
about for an e-mail address is the "@," a sure way to tell a
URL is by the use of the colon. Here's the URL, (or, website address)
for example, of what might be your favorite site:
Http://www.jivagoswamidasa.com
Can we talk about this? People make fun, going, "w,w,w, dot, dot, w,w @, dot, dot com dot," you know.
Guess what?
The "http://www" parts are hardly needed anymore! When you see or hear them, you may know you're hearing about a URL, not an e-mail address. If you make your Internet destination "Jivagoswamidasa.com" there is every likelihood your browser will take you to your destination without fuss or bother, and without the "http://www" preliminary.
Clicking on one link above will start the process of sending me an e-mail, clicking on the "dot com" address will "bring" you to "my" web site, Club Services.
So when someone wants or gives an e-mail address, it will have the "@" as part of it, and it is used to send and receive messages.
A web site address usually has a suffix like "dot com" written: ".com" but sometimes the suffix is ".edu" or ".org" or maybe even ".gov". There are lots. Web site addresses take you to a web page or web site ... like this one!
Thank you for now!
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Narayna Tech Support Fulfillment Specialist / Club Services
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