计算机英语 刘艺 王春生 第4版Unit 11A

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。
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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."
Cyberculture— Introduction
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.
是 否 得分 你会收发消息吗？ 你会转发文档给他人吗？ 你会收发附件吗？ 你把电子邮件分类整理到文件夹中吗？ 你会把一封电子邮件发给多个人吗？ 得分（是） 8～10分 专家级 7～8分 熟练级 5～6分 入门级 0～5分 需要努力
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Cyberculture— Introduction
? Have you created and used a signature file
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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
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。
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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.
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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.
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。 10
Cyberculture— Introduction
电子邮件越来越正式——过去，读者会原谅电子邮件 中的打字错误、拼写错误以及失礼，特别是在电子邮件 刚出现并难以使用的时候。今天，读者期待电子邮件更 为正式，能够显示出对其他交流形式所期待的质量。
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Cyberculture— Introduction
E-mail standards and conventions are still being formed——How e-mail should be used in the workplace is still being worked out. People hold widely different views about the appropriate (and inappropriate) use of e-mail. So, you need to pay close attention to how email is used in your company and your reader’s companies. Many companies are developing policies explaining how e-mail should be used. If your company has a policy on e-mail usage, you should read it and follow it.
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。 8
UNIT 11
Section A Using E-Mail
Cyberculture (计算机文化)
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I. Introduction E-mail is an electronic system for sending and receiving 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 email, here are a few guidelines to keep in mind:
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？
Are ng lists (listservs)? you know what flaming is? you know what spam is? you know what netiquette is?
Cyberculture —Introduction
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 2 时需记住的指导原则：
Cyberculture—Introduction
● E-mail is increasingly used for professional purposes --Not long ago, e-mall was considered a secondary form of communication. It was spontaneous and chatty, used mostly for quick comments or nonessential information. Today, e-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 邮件还被视为一种次要的交流形式。那时，它自然并具 有聊天式的风格，大多用于表达未加深思的意见或传递 不重要的信息。今天，电子邮件在大多数工作场所已成 为一种主要的交流形式。因此，人们期待电子邮件具有 3 专业性，不轻薄琐屑。 Spontaneous:adj自发的, 天真率直的，
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。
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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.