Multiple Recipient Addressing
Another advantage of email addressing is that it allows the easy specification of multiple recipients. With paper mail, sending a message to ten people means you need ten copies of the message, ten envelopes, and ten stamps. With email, you just list the recipient addresses separated by a comma in the recipient list: <user1@domain1>,<user2@domain2>,<user3@domain3>. A separate copy is mailed to each recipient. Of course, aliases and/or address books can be used to specify each recipient here as well, making this even simpler.
Since email makes it so easy for one person to send information to a set of others, so-called one-to-many messaging, it was also one of the first ways in which electronic group communication was ...
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