CONTEXT Little is known about what prompts patients to use e-mail with their physicians and how physicians respond to these e-mails. OBJECTIVE To identify the main reasons why patients e-mail and to learn how psychiatrists manage these e-mails as part of these patients' overall care. DESIGN One hundred patient-initiated e-mails to each of two psychiatrists in a group practice were studied r...

Status of this Memo This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community. Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested. Please refer to the current edition of the "IAB Official Protocol Standards" for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This document describes a set of mappings which will enable int...

In this paper we propose a user based architecture for the email system, where the recipient of an email message manage its receipt in conjunction with both origin and destination email servers. Messages are kept to the origin email server until a confirmation from the recipient is issued though the destination email server. Therefore, spam email doesn’t travel the Internet and doesn’t overload...