December 2002
Think Outside the Mailbox
Torrents of e-mail have turned us all into file clerks. Isn't there a better way?
By Simson Garfinkel
Way back in 1978 I got my first account on an online bulletin-board system. Using my 300-bits-per-second modem, I would log into a computer somewhere in Allentown, PA, and read and reply to messages people had left for me. If there were messages I thought were particularly important, I would save copies on my home computer in a file I called "oldmail."
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