Nakamura had taught himself how to type e-mail rapidly with only one thumb, Japanese high-school-girl-style.
The person will soon see where you are coming from, and so can begin a tennis match of e-mails that can rapidly become a daily source first of excitement, then furious discussion and another quickly but carefully drafted response.
For example, much of the mail stream could be rapidly replaced by electronic mail, easing the cost of disinfecting and inspecting mail.
Updates of catalogs, computer software, and archival databases are distributed via e-mail, a method of rapidly forwarding and storing bodies of digital information between remote computers.
Mail-order firms grew rapidly in the 1950s and '60s in continental Europe, Great Britain, and certain other highly industrialized nations.
Google no doubt hopes Buzz will help it catch up with the leaders of the networking world but the chances are slim.Google's move is a sign that the world of social networking and that of other online services, such as e-mail and search, are rapidly converging.
All primary schools in the district receive a copy and any extra copies are sent to a rapidly growing mailing list of officials, decision makers and intellectuals.
At the same time, its first-class mail business is being eroded rapidly by the Internet.
Direct mail offerings have been declining rapidly since 2006.
But with a spate of e-mail messages in mid-August, the airlines provided something of a case study on the emerging use of e-mail to deliver corporate messages rapidly to valued customers, unfiltered by the media and unhindered by the cumbersome process of sending printed direct mail.
The virus, known as SoBig.F, spread rapidly by e-mail messages across computer networks.
