[LINK] Turnbull wants all aussies to have email address

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Antony Barry wrote:
> 
> On 9 Sep 2005, at 12:50 PM, Peter Hughes wrote:
> 
>> Apart from any technical problems my real world experience tells me 
>> people simply won't use such email addresses (apart from all the 
>> problems of whole sections of the population not being online!)
> 
> 
> Around 1988 I installed an internal email system in the ANU library. 
> Everybody had access to a terminal (this was pre-PCs on every desk). 
> There was training. When people didn't use it or delete their mail it 
> started to consume too much memory. So wrote some software to 
> automatically send emails to their supervisors to follow up and help 
> sort out their subordinates problems. That didn't work either. Some 
> enthusiasts used it. Most people didn't. The only way to ensure 
> communication with all staff was to send them paper.
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around the same time, I reduced  disk storage by writing software to 
automatically delete old email from the inbox and read folders (ie 
messages  that hadn't been filed) and empty wastebaskets. I don't recall 
any complaints. Though I do recall some managers objecting to their 
staff getting email on the grounds they would communicate.

...some years later a friend said they needed a new computer because 
theirs wasn't working anymore - upon investigation the Browser Cache had 
never been emptied!

M
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