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Faculty Members Bred on Typewriters Learn to Love E-Mail and the World Wide Web

Family Ties

Even if professors are hooked on the Internet, the fervor hasn't necessarily spread to their families.

Ehrenreich notes that though his wife is "tempted" to get on-line, she hasn't done it yet.

"In families, it's not yet as common," he says, although he does communicate by e-mail with his children.

And while Nagy receives e-mail every other hour from his wife, his son hasn't jumped on the information super-highway.

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"My son who's a sophomore at [University of] Chicago is e-mail phobic," Nagy says. "We have a very good telephone relationship, but he doesn't e-mail me. I still have to sell him on how e-mail can be talk substitute and a talk supplement."

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