Dorner now works for the Qualcomm Corporation, who licensed Eudora from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne where Dorner created it, bringing his problems home from the office and solving them in the bomb shelter beneath his house. Still a major question in Steve Dorners' email is why he called his programme Eudora. Like the Internet itself, Email relies on its own rules, its own social conventions. Writer Virginia Shea is known to many as the Miss Manners of cyberspace. The essence of her advice about the manners of email is to never send a message you wouldn't want to receive yourself.
People now use email in an astonishing number of ways.
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