Email Email has well known advantages as a means of communication - and some disadvantages. A single address can be established such that an email sent to that address gets copied to all the participants. There is of course a danger that traffic can become overwhelming, that detailed mails that are of interest to only two or three people waste the time of the others. A carefully worded title can quickly inform individuals whether that item is likely to be important to them. One of the problems of email is that it is not always as reliable as may be hoped.
Writers often assume that because a mail has been sent that it has been received - and read.
This may not be the case, for a number of reasons. This is one reason why it can be a good idea to ensure that all mail broadcast to the group is archived on the central site. Any partner missing out on a thread of the correspondence can then consult the archive. An alternative or supplementary means of communication is the newsgroup. Management Ideally one individual at the central site should be in charge of managing the data held there.