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Advantages outweigh
disadvantages
Advantages: 1.E-mail is cost-effective as we can send a long letter to a user for the cost of just a single local call irrespective of the distance. 2.It is immaterial whether the person to whom the message or a letter is e-mailed is present or not since the facility of inbox is provided. 3.Speed is a remarkable feature of e-mail as the mail can be sent anywhere around the globe within a few seconds. 4.The mail, which has to be sent to various persons, need not be rewritten. It can be sent as a copy to other users. 5.E-mail once sent or
received can be stored indefinitely. Disadvantages: 1.Security is one of the major issues on the Net, as techniques that can threaten privacy exist. 2.The user needs to be
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Overcoming
e-mail tampering E-MAILS have become an integral part of the modern business world. E-mail tampering has made sending and receiving them dangerous. E-mail tampering refers to altering of contents of real e-mail to make a fake e-mail containing damaging material. The contents of e-mail can be used as evidence in a litigation process. Voice mails get erased as the mailboxes have small storage capacities. Hence the evidentiary power of voice mails is negligible. In contrast, e-mails can be kept on the hard disks for an indefinite period. Computer forensic techniques can retrieve the deleted e-mails. The menace of
tampering can be overcome if proper backup logs are maintained.
Another solution is the
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Goodbye e-mail, hello courriel GOODBYE "e-mail", the French government says, and hello "courriel" - the term that linguistically sensitive France is now using to refer to electronic mail in official documents. The Culture Ministry has announced a ban on the use of e-mail in all government ministries, documents, publications or Websites, the latest step to stem an incursion of English words into the French lexicon. The ministry’s General Commission on Terminology and Neology insists Internet surfers in France are broadly using the term "courrier electronique" (electronic mail) instead of e-mail - a claim some industry experts dispute. "Courriel" is a fusion of the two words. "Evocative, with a very French sound, the word ‘courriel’ is broadly used in the press and competes advantageously with the borrowed ‘mail’ in English," the commission has ruled. The move to ban
"e-mail" was announced last week after the decision was
published in the official Some Internet industry
experts say the decision is artificial and doesn’t reflect
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SENDING
and receiving messages, letters, etc in the modern society is no longer
dependent on the postal system. As electronic medium has ushered in a
revolution, computer has become a necessity instead of luxury. The
Internet has gifted us e-mail too besides e-commerce, EDI and surfing.
E-mail is a facility that has bridged the communication gap among the
Netizens and aided in the spread of globalisation. Its use is not merely
limited to sending and receiving messages and letters in the form of
text but much more which includes memos, reports, graphics, etc. The
user can send them through e-mail to an individual or a group of
individuals. Moreover, electronic mail can be received, answered,
deleted or kept in the memory.