Electronic mail (email) enjoys wide acceptance among the general public1,2 but has more limited acceptance among physicians.3 A 2005 survey found that 46% of Canadian physicians used email to communicate with colleagues for clinical purposes.4 Although email can be extremely useful, physicians need to appreciate the potential hazards of using email in clinical practice.5 The College of Physicia...

Electronic mail has become an indispensable tool in business and academia, and personal use is increasing every day. However, there is also evidence that Email, unlike more traditional communication media, can exert a powerful hold over its users and that many computer users experience stress as a direct result of email-related pressure. This paper develops a three-fold typology of orientations...

Despite persisting in popularity, email is still plagued with information overload, hindering the workflow of data handled by the user. Just as Semantic Web technologies promise to revolutionize the Web, we aspire to use the same technology to enhance electronic mail with useful semantics. Thus we will tackle one of the largest flaws of the email communication genre the lack of shared expectati...

Users are increasingly more mobile, using different e-mail systems in different places. Based on the results of an explorative study of task management in a user’s daily electronic life, and earlier work on information management in e-mail, we begin a restructuring of the domain of Internet email. The purpose is to make it even more suitable for message-based communication in organizations, whe...

Many organisations worldwide are benefiting from the use of electronic mail (e-mail) for workplace communication. However employees continue to report multifarious e-mail concerns (“e-mail defects”) including ambiguous unclear messages, e-mail overload, security and privacy issues, and e-mail interruptions. Such e-mail defects affect employee productivity and satisfaction, organisational costs ...

Many organisations worldwide are benefiting from the use of electronic mail (e-mail) for workplace communication. However employees continue to report multifarious e-mail concerns (“e-mail defects”) including ambiguous unclear messages, e-mail overload, security and privacy issues, and e-mail interruptions. Such e-mail defects affect employee productivity and satisfaction, organisational costs ...

The present study investigates the effect of e-mail on Iranian learners of English and focuses on teaching thewriting skillvia e-mail. More specifically, the study investigates (a) whether using e-mail has any statistically significant effect on improving high school students' writing skill, and (b) whether the proficiency level has any relation with students’ writing improvement through using ...