November 05, 2023 02:49 am | Updated 02:49 am ISTI was the third person in my large institute to have been allotted an email ID, when the email services became available in 1992. In subsequent years, as the use of email spread widely, my own use of it also grew and soon my email address list had hundreds of addresses. Quite similarly, the good old email has itself been replaced largely by WhatsApp messaging, for the convenience of the millions, who have patronised this social media outlet to the extent that some of them may not know that official messages and government circulars are still transmitted through the email system. That brings me to the recent trend of not making public your email address, even if you are not a celebrity. I get worried, when I open this email ID, once a month or so, to find some message that did require my attention a few days ago.

Source: The Hindu November 05, 2023 09:23 UTC