Re: E-mail
One more point: If one uses a web-based email provider (Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, Gmail, etc.), then our emails are always 'out there' on a server and not on our computer.
If your email is downloaded onto your computer, then it is no longer web-based but rather is, as put earlier, computer specific.
The point to be made is that Roadrunner (the example given earlier) and Earthlink (the ISP that we use), to use just two examples, allow us to function from anywhere in the world on any computer using the webmail component provided by them. Emails come in and we can send emails out. However, once we download the mail from the ISP's server onto our home computer, then those particular emails are now on the hard drive of our own computer and no longer available on the web.
Of course, new emails continue to be sent to us and always start out on the ISP's server (hence 'webmail'), and it is from here that (again) we download them onto our own computers.
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