Sistemas de informaçao

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Curso: Sistemas de Informação
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Disciplina: Inglês Técnico

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Preserving a life in e-mail
In order to leave a paper trail for future generations, try hitting PRINT. 1 lt's a fact of digital life: an e-mail recording some detail of life - a birth announcement, a wedding, a chatty family story - comes from a relative. And then 3 you erase it. "Correspondence makes up a good portion of the oral history of our society," says David Lambert of the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston. "Or at least it used to – before people started discovering the DELETE 6 buttons." While cleaning up the computer desktop might seem like the top priority in the present moment, future generations would disagree. "Your grandchildren won't be able to go to your attic* and sort through a bunch of deleted e-maiIs," he 9 says. "The loss to them will be incalculable." To guard against this, Lambert instead wants everyone to start hitting the PRINT button, then filing* the printouts away*. And if you're keeping an online diary, make a copy of that as well. 12 "Imagine how little we'd know about the Civil War, for instance, if it had occurred during the age of the deletable message," he says. "You'll be saving what looks like the most mundane message in the world - but it just might turn to gold 15 for someone looking back on it." E-mail has proved to be one of the best ways of bringing far-flung families together - something Lambert discovered while researching his own ancestors. "l've gotten e-mails from distant relatives all 18 over England, including some from people whose great-grandparents were siblings with mine," he says. Recently someone in