Email has been a vital communication medium for many years now. It provides speedy and efficient communication of information that can be easily and quickly created, edited, stored, discarded, organized, appended, and forwarded. Its “technical neutrality” has minimized possible communication distortions caused by differences in occupational, ethnic or gender features and expanded connections be...

This version is made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the reference above. He is interested in ethnography, computer-supported cooperative work, computer-mediated communication, and the sociology of online communities. Leon Watts is an applied psychologist concerned with human communication and mediating technologies; he is a lecturer...

Email has evolved to be a convenient and important communication media. It greatly facilitates the communication among people from all over the world. The existence of all kinds of free email services makes email communication even more attractive. The convenience and popularity of emails has also made them ideal vehicles to spread computer worms and viruses. Email viruses and worms have appear...

Digital communication data has created opportunities to advance the knowledge of human dynamics in many areas, including national security, behavioral health, and consumerism. While digital data uniquely captures the totality of a person's communication, past research consistently shows that a subset of contacts makes up a person's "social network" of unique resource providers. To address this ...

Email has evolved to be a convenient and important communication media. It greatly facilitates the communication among people from all over the world. The existence of all kinds of free email services makes email communication even more attractive. The convenience and popularity of emails has also made them ideal vehicles to spread computer worms and viruses. Email viruses and worms have appear...

Email occupies a central role in the modern workplace. This has led to a vast increase in the number of email messages that users are expected to handle daily. Furthermore, email is no longer simply a tool for asynchronous online communication—email is now used for task management, personal archiving, as well both synchronous and asynchronous online communication (Whittaker and Sidner 1996). Th...

Ciphire Mail is cryptographic software that provides email encryption and digital signatures. The Ciphire Mail client resides on the user's computer between the email client and the email server, intercepting, encrypting, decrypting, signing, and authenticating email communication. During normal operation, all operations are performed in the background, making it very easy to use even for non-t...

Email has become an important communication medium that people routinely rely on to achieve their daily work. However, managing email accounts for life-long communication is not an easy task. Users have different strategies for archiving their messages and have varied understanding and expectations of retrieval and how to use that capability. We have designed and implemented a tool, VisPEAM tha...