The present study aimed to analyze reprint request e-mail messages written by postgraduates (MA students) of two fields of study, namely Physics and EFL, to realize the differences and similarities between the two email types. To investigate the purpose of the study, a sample of 100 e-mail messages, 50 Physics and 50 EFL, were analyzed according to Swales’ (1990) model for reprint requests and ...

The increasing employment of Internet services, especially that of Electronic Mail, confronts many users with the problem of processing, storing and eventually retrieving large amounts of e-mail. Many tools have been introduced to facilitate these jobs. However, most existing solutions are limited in their utility, because they apply archives mostly files and directories which are rigid in thei...

The Unicode Standard [UNICODE], and ISO/IEC 10646 [ISO-10646] jointly define a character set (hereafter referred to as Unicode) which encompasses most of the world’s writing systems. UTF-16, the object of this specification, is an encoding scheme of this character set that has the characteristics of encoding the vast majority of currently-defined characters in exactly two octets and of being ab...

Current anonymous e-mail systems offer unconditional anonymity to their users which can provoke abusive behaviour. Dissatisfied users will drop out and liability issues may even force the system to suspend or cease its services. Therefore, controlling abuse is as important as protecting the anonymity of legitimate users when designing anonymous applications. This paper describes the design and ...

In this paper we describe our distributed implementation of two factoring algorithms. the elliptic curve method (ecm) and the multiple polynomial quadratic sieve algorithm (mpqs). Since the summer of 1987. our erm-implementation on a network of MicroVAX processors at DEC’s Systems Research Center has factored several most and more wanted numbers from the Cunningham project. In the summer of 198...