Tools for processing e-mail and other electronic messages should be able to recognize and manipulate threads, that is, conversations among two or more people carried out by exchange of messages. While user clients typically insert in messages structural information useful for recovering threads, inconsistencies between clients, loose standards, creative user behavior, and the subjective nature ...

ELECTRONIC MAIL HAS been available for over a decade in various forms. How is it used in libraries? To what extent is i t used? Is i t still viable for library applications? Are there other competing technologies which have surpassed the promise of electronic mail? These are some of the issues which this article will address. The concept of electronic mail is fairly straightforward. Electronic ...

The literature on the electronic mail game shows that players’ mutual expectations may lock them into requiring an inefficiently large number of confirmations and confirmations of confirmations from one another. This paper shows that this result hinges on the assumption that, with the exception of the first message, each player can only send a message when receiving an immediately preceding mes...

Electronic mail, email, is one of the most widespread computer applications today. While email in general is very popular among its users, there are also drawbacks with email usage: an increasing amount of messages that overwhelm users, systems that are too complex for naive users and at the same time do not support the needs of experienced users. In order to answer the main research question “...