Email

1. Business Advantages

The benefits of email soon outweigh the capital cost of installing a system.

1.1 Email is cheap.

• Within a company network, mail is free.
• You can send messages to people over the Internet for the price of a short, local rate telephone call.

1.2 Email is convenient.

• Mail can be written and sent at any time.
• The recipient can read and answer the message when it is convenient. As the sender, you can often get automatic notification that your emails have been received and read.
• Text can be cut and pasted to other applications, for quick, accurate working.

1.3 Email is usually extremely fast.

• Within a company network, delivery is nearly instantaneous.
• Transmission over the Internet normally takes a few seconds, though it may take several minutes if a large file is being sent.