Linux® Desktop Garage

Chapter 6. E-mail and Newsgroups

All over the world, there are collections of brilliant letters. Letters serve as small time capsules to historians. The paper, the envelope, the stamps, the style of the handwriting, the language used, the spelling, any decorative doodles, the type of pen used, and the manner in which the letter was saved all give a picture of the letter writer, receiver, and time. Our letters are now usually short notes sent by e-mail. Even if someone takes the time to write a long, thoughtful missive, the words and thoughts are in a constant danger of becoming lost or deleted data.

I received two actual items in the mail last week that were not bills or junk mail. I haven't received real mail in ages. The whole thing baffled ...