Patent ID: 7013429

Claim:
An electronic mail transmission/reception system, comprising: a communication means, to transmit and receive electronic mail; a display means, to display transmitted and received electronic mail on a display screen; a message input means, to input messages to said display screen; a message storage means, to store said input messages; and, a control means, to cause said display means to display said input messages in a message-board format; and wherein said control means divides said display screen into a plurality of message display regions, and associates each message with a message display region for display, and wherein each of said message display regions has an other-party specification region to specify the other party to which to transmit messages, and comprises a specification means to specify another party from one or a plurality of other parties set in said other-party specification region; and, said control means performs control to transmit a message displayed in said message display region to the other party specified by said specification means.