Although Internet message formats have been precisely defined since the 1970s, authoring and handling software often shows only mild conformance to the specifications. The malformed messages that result are non-standard. Nonetheless, decades of experience have shown that using some tolerance in the handling of the malformations that result is often an acceptable approach and is better than reje...

The current mail server architecture spawns a new process upon every new connection it receives. The new process deals with the handling of the mail from accepting “Helo” information till the end of the connection. While forking a new process for each separate connection has many advantages in terms of security and modularity, this architecture has severe performance implications in view of inc...

Of my own situation I wrote: “In one day I typically receive 5-10 pieces of regular junk mail, 15-25 regular letters, 5 pieces of campus mail, 5 reports or documents (not all technical), 5-10 incoming phone calls, 10-20 local electronic messages, and 10-20 external electronic messages. Although many of these messages are discarded or forwarded to others for handling, much of my time is required...

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 ...