The Web organizes things by theme or topic. It encourages you to see how many little physical blue links you can make between different things. Decision making is decentralized to the local level where each dean runs the show. Inverse sent some 3,300 messages to and from each Internet service provider to compile its data. What happens 99 percent of the time is that the mail just sits in a machine somewhere for hours or even days.
Some people blame Internet gateways for most of the problems.
A bad gateway will mishandle the attachment and drop it on the floor or turn it into something you can't read. The number of new Internet users appears to be stabilizing, with growth rates hovering at less than 5 percent, according to a demographics study released last week by the Georgia Institute of Technology. We don't know whether it will pick up again. There hasn't been that much change of the last three surveys. These gleanings are excerpted from Edupage, a summary of news about information technology, provided three times a week as a service by Educom, a Washington, D.C.-based consortium of leading colleges and universities seeking to transform education through the use of information technology.