Electronic messaging
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Electronic messaging may refer to:

One to One communication
  • Instant message (on a computer network)
  • Personal message
    Personal message
    A personal message or private message, often shortened to PM, is like an e-mail sent from one user to another user on an Internet forum, bulletin board system, social networking site , or chat room ....

     (on a computer network)
  • Text message (on a cellular phone network)
  • SMTP (on a computer network)
  • Email
    Email
    Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...

     (on a computer Network)
  • Voicemail
    Voicemail
    Voicemail is a computer based system that allows users and subscribers to exchange personal voice messages; to select and deliver voice information; and to process transactions relating to individuals, organizations, products and services, using an ordinary telephone...

     (using the PSTN)
  • Fax
    Fax
    Fax , sometimes called telecopying, is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material , normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device...

     (using the PSTN)
  • Pager
    Pager
    A pager is a simple personal telecommunications device for short messages. A one-way numeric pager can only receive a message consisting of a few digits, typically a phone number that the user is then requested to call...

     (using the PSTN)

One to Many communication
  • Bulletin board system
    Bulletin board system
    A Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is a computer system running software that allows users to connect and log in to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, a user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging...

     (on a computer network)
  • Internet forum
    Internet forum
    An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are at least temporarily archived...

     (on a computer network)
  • Internet Newsgroups on the Usenet
    Usenet
    Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It developed from the general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name.Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979 and it was established in 1980...

    (on a computer network)
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