It doesn’t quite have the ring of John F. Kennedy’s vow, in 1961, to land a man on the moon “before this decade is out.” But you’d think a President or candidate for President would by now have hurled a similar challenge, with the promise of raising the nation’s literacy, its computer skills and its technical prowess: E-mail for All by 2010!
The Power of E-mail
As millions of Americans already know, E-mail is electronic mail that can be sent by anyone with a computer and telephone to everyone similarly equipped, anywhere on earth, almost instantaneously,...
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