E-mail simply means electronic mail. Great for corresponding with family and friends down the street or around the world because it's easy, it's fast, and it's free if you have a computer.
If you don't have a computer you can still send and receive e-mail by signing up with our local Mount Vernon Net. If you do have a computer, you should join MOUNT VERNON NET* for several reasons. Not only is it the civic thing to do, to be a part of this community initiative, but you get a Mount Vernon ADDRESS* to put on your letterhead, business cards and Christmas cards. And it makes a good permanent e-mail address because the Net's server will automatically forward your mail wherever you wish, freeing you to move between Internet services. (Now you can take advantage of that latest free ISP offer without ever "leaving home.")
Eliminating junk mail. As long as e-mail is free, entrepreneurs will find new ways to use it. Here is the way to solve the problem. Give your Mount Vernon address to your friends and to your important business contacts. For all other e-mail and web surfing, use any address you wish; change the address often; each time you change, your junk mail will be lost! Furthermore, each junk mail message will subsequently bounce back to the person who sent it. (So if we all did this, we could eliminate junk mailers too--burying them in their own waste.)
Each community association in the Mount Vernon area has been invited to join the Mount Vernon Net and obtain an @MtVernon.Net e-mail address, as well as its own home page and threaded discussion for member communication. If each person working on community matters has e-mail, it can save meetings and speed communica-tion, such as passing drafts of materials between those working together on projects.