If you think you dumbed that down for your friend's mom, you didn't. What you needed to explain is that "...your email is not attached to your computer -- you can have the same email on MANY computers..." and then tie in the fact that spam can happen on any computer because of that. Tell her it's JUST LIKE getting junk mail in a PO box with a forwarding address. The junk gets forwarded too.
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If you think you dumbed that down for your friend's mom, you didn't. What you needed to explain is that "...your email is not attached to your computer -- you can have the same email on MANY computers..." and then tie in the fact that spam can happen on any computer because of that. Tell her it's JUST LIKE getting junk mail in a PO box with a forwarding address. The junk gets forwarded too.