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To: Jonathan Bird who wrote (16118)	7/31/1998 4:10:00 PM
From: Slugger	Respond to of 213182

<<Would kids be able to use iMac at home, send their file to school via e-mail, and retrieve at school for the next day's work? Currently it is very rare for a k-12 school to give students their own eMail address on a large scale.>> I teach high school and it would be a daunting task to provide each student with an e-mail address (our school is approaching an enrollment of 2700), not to mention the ensuing headache of trying to keep the spam out of their mailboxes. However, a student could set up their own e-mail address and then access that from a school computer. We still use floppies in my classroom because not every computer is hooked up to the internet and saving all those papers to the hard drive creates a mess. Nevertheless, the iMac would be useful in school libraries. Library computers are used by students for internet research - the student searches for information, finds it and then prints it out on the library printer. No need for a floppy.