Electronic Mail
- The oldest of the tools, email allows quick communication
around the world.
- Some advantages are:
- Many user-friendly (?) mail programs
- Cost effective, especially at long distances
- Mailing lists are possible, and useful (listservs)
- Mail discussion groups
- Some disadvantages:
- Junk Mail (and you thought voice mail was bad!)
- A.I.R. (Assumption of Immediate Response) -
do not let yourself fall into this trap