'You've Got Mail!'

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By Newsweek Editors

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SETH SHOSTAK'S PROBLEM WITH TOO much e-mail is not with the medium of communication but the communicants (""You Call This Progress?'' MY TURN, Jan. 18). Our family, ages 4 months to 83 years, has a chain of computers across the country that keeps us current with each other. We have used it to exchange genealogy notes and to transmit photographs/tintypes of family members back to the 1850s. Before e-mail, you could do all this by phone and snail mail--only it took longer, and with 74 living extended-family members, probably a lot of family history would have been missed. When Shostak learns to do a quick delete on the annoying messages, just like throwing away junk mail, he will regain control of his life and can begin to enjoy e-mail.

ROSE VOLKERT COLUMBUS, OHIO

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