About three years ago I wrote an entry in this journal about coping with e-mail overload It is hard to believe that e-mail has been around academic circles for about 20 years. We have used it so long that we can't perceive how we ever did without it. Is it a blessing or a curse? Some people use e-mail to avoid a face to face confrontation. on the other hand it is so much easier to communicate with more people than snail mail
When I first started at NJIT I used a Vax based system called Tesla named after the famous physicist. Some years later we moved to Microsoft Outlook. In early 2013 the university decided to standardize all e-mail accounts and move everyone to a Gmail system which students have used since 2008. Yesterday, was the day of transition for me.
Like everything else, there will be a learning curve. I guess we all must cope with technological change.
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