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Email is both efficient and frustrating. More and more, we rely on email at the newspaper office to send and receive information in advertising and news. Last week, our email host stopped working for several hours … on a Tuesday! I wondered at the time if the Monday eclipse had anything to do with it.

Whatever the cause, email was down for four or five hours while we were working under a deadline to get the Newsgram finished for publication. We had to contact several people by phone to have them send their ad copy to an alternate email address.

Recently, there was a column in the Publishers Au...