1. The unique address within the Internet which allows people to send mail to you. Your e-mail address is made up of your name, the symbol and your domain name, so the address is tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de is the address for the user tripathi working at amadeus machine at the Statistics Faculty of University of Dortmund in Germany. To locate other netusers, please visit at ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/finding-addresses From Glossary of Distance Education and Internet Terminology