Electronic mail is the process of sending messages directly from one computer to another. Electronic mail releases workers from the tyranny of the telephone. Perhaps a company has employees who find communication difficult because they are geographically dispersed or are too active to be reached easily.
Yet these may be people who need to work togethere frequently, whose communication is valuable and important. These people are ideal candidates for electronic mail.
A user can send messages to a collegue downstairs, a query across town to that person who is never available for phone calls, even memos simultaneously to regional sales managers in different towns. The beauty of electronic mail, or e-mail as it is commonly called, is that user can send a message to someone and know that the person will receive it.
Electronic mail works, of course, only if the intended receiver has the electronic mail facility to which the sender is connected. The service provider creates as many electronic ‘mailboxes’ as needed for each user. User get thei mail by giving proper indetificatino from thei own computers.
Eletronic mail users shower it with praise. It crosses timo zones, can reach many people with the same message, reduces the paper flood and does not interrupt meetings the way a ringing phone does. No one knows exactly how many people use e-mail, but it is estimated that there are 75 million e-mail user across the U.S:, with about 50 million using it from their home computer systems, and thei numeber is growing continuosly.
THE CHAT LINE
Sometimes a group of people interested in a specific subject set up a mailing list just to discuss that topic. And in the same way that a postal or company mailing list send paper copies of messages to all specified parties, an e-mail mailing list helps the sender reach a target audience through their computers. That way, groups of people separated by time or distance can discuss a project or an interst and even arrange to meet when they happen to be in each other’s areas.
In addition, chet lines allow you to communicate with another person in real timethat is, the two of you are both on your respective connections at the same time, and you exchange information much as you would in a phone call, except that you are each typing in on your computer.