In general, the symbolic capital in CMC can be different than the symbolic capital which a person has in F2F communication. User does not have to wait during the delivery handling. Automatic resending if the recipient is not available can be done without trouble for the sender. Recipient can download a selection of newly arrived messages. Disadvantages Transmission time can be longer.
Reliability can be lower, there are more places where a message can disappear.
Cost can be larger, and there can be problems paying for the relaying servers. Sender does not get immediate feedback of delivery results. 4 Discuss the handling of error messages, saying that an e-mail message could not be put into the mailbox of the recipient, in the case where the message was sent via a mailing list. The original sender should, however, get a non-delivery notification if the message could not be delivered to the list expander. Non-delivery notifications are then returned to the envelope sender, not to the sender specified in the heading of the message.