This State Department web site is a permanent electronic archive of information released prior to January 20, 2001. Please see the current site for material released since that date. Contact us with any questions about finding information. Senegal hese days, we have too many communication choices. As efficient as many of these choices can be, they also have their failures.
Faxes disappear into thin air.
Phone messages left on answering machines go mysteriously unanswered. E-mails are left hanging in thin air with no acknowledgment or answer. Any communication exchange is only as good as the lowest-technology equipment used to conduct it. You distribute something on paper because the Internet is not yet the rage, and the Secretary of State publishes the same thing electronically. E-mail is everyone's favorite technology, but it seems to be overrated.