E-mail messages
What is a packet?
A packet is a single unit, or "package", of data that is sent
across a network. Data is broken into packets before it is sent across the Internet. Types
of data that are sent across the Internet using packets include:
E-mail messages
Files, via File
Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Web pages, via
the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)
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