How reliable is email in today”s Internet world? Perfect, isn”t it? You would think that it would be completely reliable — we use it all the time. All we”re doing is pushing around electrons and we”ve known how to do that, in one way or another, for an awfully long time.

Whether we are writing to friends, sending a joke, sending a picture, or sending a business message, email has become a part of our lives. We”ve come to rely on it for easy communications. We don”t even understand our friends that don”t “do” email.

However, as we have increased the reliability of the transmission system. We have also increased the noise and the noise filters that we use to keep control. We also have this concept known as “information overload.” We usually hear about information overload with regard to a person being overloaded with the quantity of information they receive — from mail, from TV, from radio, from emails, from web site.

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