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UNIT 10ຫໍສະໝຸດ Cyberculture(计算机文化)
Section A
Using E-Mail
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Cyberculture —Introduction
I. Introduction
E-mail is an electronic system for sending and receiving
Yes No
Score
Can you receive and send messages?
Yes Marks Can you forward documents to others? Expert 8-10 Can you receive and send attached documents? Achiever 7-8 Do you sort your e-mail messages into folders? Beginner 5-6 Can you send one e-mail message to multiple people? Get to Work 0-5
Cyberculture— Introduction
Increasingly, harassment and discrimination cases hinge on evidence found in e-mails. Careless e-mails about personal relationships or appearances can be saved and used against the sender in a court case. Indiscreet comments about gender, race, or sexual orientation can also have unexpected consequences. Your "harmless" dirty jokes sent to your coworkers might end up being used by a lawyer to prove that you are creating a "hostile workplace environment." 骚扰和歧视案件越来越多地取决于在电子邮件中找到的证据。关于个
messages and files over a computer network. Compared to
the phone or paper-based documents, e-mail is still relatively
new in the workplace. When you are using e-mail, here are a
Cyberculture— Introduction Also, lawyers and courts treat e-mail as written communication, equivalent to a memo or letter. For example, much of the antitrust case against Microsoft in the late 1990s was built on recovered e-mail messages in which Bill Gates and other executives chatted informally about aggressively competing with other companies. 还有，律师和法庭把电子邮件视为书面通信，将其等同于备忘录或信 函。例如，20世纪90年代末针对微软的反垄断案在很大程度上就是以 恢复的电子邮件为根据的；在这些电子邮件中，比尔·盖茨和其他经营 主管人员非正式地聊到与其他公司展开大胆有力的竞争。 幻灯片11
是 否 得分
你会收发消息吗？ 你会转发文档给他人吗？ 级 你会收发附件吗？ 你把电子邮件分类整理到文件夹中吗？ 级 你会把一封电子邮件发给多个人吗？ 力
得分（是） 8～10分 专家
7～8分 熟练级 5～6分 入门
0～5分 需要努
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Have you created and used a signature file ? Are you on any mailing lists (listservs)? Do you know what flaming is? Do you know what spam is? Do you know what netiquette is?
你已经创建和使用签名文件了吗？ 你加入任何邮件讨论组（新闻组）了吗？ 你知道什么是在邮件讨论组中争论吗？ 你知道什么是垃圾邮件吗？ 你知道什么是网规吗？
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Cyberculture— Introduction E-mail is a form of public communication —— Your readers can purposely or mistakenly send your e-mail messages to countless others. So, you should not say things with e-mail that you would not say openly to your supervisors, coworkers, or clients. 电子邮件是一种公开的交流形式——你的读者可能把你的电子邮件有 意发给或误发给数不清的其他人。所以，你不应该用电子邮件说那些 你不愿公开说给主管、同事 或客户听的事。 幻灯片7
电子邮件标准和常规还在形成中——电子邮件在工作场所应该 如何使用，这一点还在探索中。关于电子邮件的适当（以及不 适当）使用，人们持有相差甚远的看法。因此，你需要密切关 注在你的公司和你读者的公司中电子邮件是如何使用的.许多 公司正在制订阐述如何使用电子邮件的政策.如果你的公司制 定有关于电子邮件使用的政策，你应该阅读并遵循该政策。
Cyberculture— Introduction Legally, any e-mail you send via the employer's computer
network belongs to the employer. So, your employers are within their rights to read your e-mail without your knowledge or permission. Also, deleted e-mails can be retrieved from the company's servers, and they can be used in a legal case. 从法律上讲，你通过雇主的计算机网络发送的任何电子邮件都属于雇 主。因此，你的雇主有权阅读你的电子邮件而无需你知道或得到你的 允许。另外，删除的电子邮件可从公司的服务器上恢复，而且它们可 用于法律案件。 幻灯片12
mail is a principal form of communication in most
workplaces, so people expect e-mail messages to be
professional and nonfrivolous
电子邮件越来越多地用于专业目的——不久以前，电子邮件还被视为
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You should also keep in mind that legal constraints shape how e-mail is used in the workplace. E-mail, like any other written document, is protected by copyright law. So, you need to be careful not to use e-mails in any way that might violate copyright law. For example, if you receive an e-mail from a client, you cannot immediately post it to your company's website without that client's permission. 你还应该记住，法律约束对在工作场所如何使用电子邮件具有决定性 作用。像任何其他的书面文档一样，电子邮件受版权法保护。因此， 你得小心，不要以可能触犯版权法的任何方式使用电子邮件。例如， 如果你收到一位客户的电子邮件，在没有得到该客户允许的情况下， 你不能将电子邮件马上发布到你公司的网站上。 幻灯片10
few guidelines to keep in mind:
I. 引言
电子邮件是通过计算机网络收发消息及文件的一种电子系统。不过，
与电话或纸质文档相比，电子邮件在工作场所中仍属于比较新的事
物。这里有几条使用电子邮件时需记住的指导原则：
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Cyberculture—Introduction
● E-mail is increasingly used for professional purposes --
Cyberculture— Introduction E-mail is increasingly formal -In the past, readers forgave typos, misspellings, and bloopers in e-mail messages, especially when e-mail was new and difficult to use. Today. readers expect e-mails to be more formal, reflecting the quality expected in other forms of communication.