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Using email for almost everything from FTP downloads/uploads or Free WEB site hosting to using it for gatter FINGER or WHOIS information (telnet is still not available :)
This paper presents the results of a case study of a (perceived) problem of information overload from e-mail in a large firm. We argue that for CMCs to be effective there is a need to establish a ‘context’ in which the message can be interpreted.
M. Dredze, T. Lau, и N. Kushmerick. IUI '06: Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces, стр. 70--77. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2006)