Login information and E-mail is transmitted via an automatically encripted secure connection. The E-mail remains on the server until the owner deletes it making it possible to securely access mail from any place the user has access to a secure web browser. The server also provides filtering capabilities for E-mail. Members of the list are able to send an E-mail message to the list name and it will be sent on to all of the list members. Mailing lists are designed for announcements and other messages that need to be mass mailed.
Mailing lists are also ideal for any sort of discussion by a group.
This means that they are able to use the familiar Windows tools such as opening documents and drag and drop to access their files. This is especially useful for situations where a student or other individual may be working from different PCs at different times. This also allows the site administrator to grant each user an amount of disk space on the SCNC server and not have to duplicate that amount of disk on each PC at the site. A happy side effect of using a central network drive to host user work files is that when you run a backup of the SCNC server, the user files will also be backed up. Usually called Netnews or Usenet News or UUnet News.