Word: webmail
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...however, hope that Harvard students might be able to transfer some of the energy they now devote to checking webmail, poking (stalking) attractive freshmen on the facebook, discussing the UC or any Boston sport franchise, to reading about, some of the more pressing issues facing the world today...
...service up. But on the other hand it is kind of unacceptable for the outage to go on for this long and affect this many people.” Students also complained that not all e-mail clients were equally affected by the outage. “MacMail, Thunderbird, Webmail, Eudora, Outlook, etc., are much more sophisticated clients than Pine, which is relatively very simple,” Levine wrote in an e-mail. “Pine has much less overhead in communicating with a mail server, hence during times of a stressed e-mail system, Pine is more...
...Webmail is several grades trickier. Used by professors, recruiters, and parents alike, e-mail has become more formal since the original introduction of @aol.com—although it’s still a great way to communicate with friends abroad, sisters at work, and good-looking strangers that you meet on the subway during the commute to your summer internship and look very normal but could be axe-murderers. (While he turned out not to be violent, he was unhappily married, a slight turn-off I dare...
Recent events have also reminded us of the dangerously permanent nature of webmail. What once seemed witty—flirtatious allusions to “The Fountainhead” and pathetic little postscripts in Portuguese—will eventually seem embarrassing. And those cute little Van Morrison subject headings now read forced instead of funny. A heading left blank, however, screams indifferent, and “Re: re: re: hey,” convinces me you just don’t care. Good e-mail correspondence can create quite the sexual tension, I’ll admit, but well-thought...
...benefits of the new system are clear. No longer will a technologically clueless student have to figure out how to set up groups in Pine, Webmail, or whatever other e-mail client he or she may use. No longer will we forget to send something to someone, leaving them off of an ad hoc e-mail list. No longer will communicating be unreasonably difficult if a student group is unofficial or trying to get off the ground and gain official status. Everything is now in one nice, easy package. A student simply goes to the HCS webpage (www.hcs.harvard.edu) and clicks...