The Gloucestershire postman was given 180 hours community service in August 2003 for keeping mail in his attic and burning other letters in his garden.

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E-mail plays an important part in keeping workers communicating with each other.

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The same Web screen we called up to set up the router also allows access to a series of administrative options that, among other things, includes turning Wireless access on and off, blocking certain URLs, keeping logs of network activity and creating e-mail alerts that let you know when Junior is trying to do something he shouldn't.

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Widely reviled by techies and elitists as being too simplistic, AOL nevertheless succeeded by keeping a laser focus on average consumers, almost single-handedly popularizing e-mail outside the workplace and bringing the Internet into the home.

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