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...first category is, no surprise here: e-mail. As evidenced by the temporary slowdown in e-mail performance last week, we Harvard folk just love our electronic mail. In order to ensure continued benefits from this medium, a few common sense tactics should be adopted...
Though unsure of the specific cause of the slowdown, officials pointed to a dramatic increase in the quantity of e-mail received by the University's system, the use of mail retrieval programs, like Eudora, and the flurry of mass mailings, such as election-related messages, as factors that contributed to the problem...
...this is of little comfort to e-mail-dependent students like Eileen woo '01, who said she found the e-mail slowdown extremely inconvenient."There's always the phone still, I guess," she said...
Still, according to Rebecca S. Rosen '99, the slowdown was only a slight annoyance. She said compared to the frequent and serious computer troubles that occurred last year, this problem was less significant...
...help reduce the e-mail load and prevent this slowdown from happening in the future, computer services advises users to attaching large files--such as videos--to their meassages and not to mass mail during...