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Excite’s Universal Inbox: A Mixed Bag If information is coming at you from mo many directions, Excite @ Home’s Excite Inbox

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问题       Excite’s Universal Inbox: A Mixed Bag
     If information is coming at you from mo many directions, Excite @ Home’s Excite Inbox promises a solution. This Web site gives you one Inbox for e-mail, voice mail, and faxes, and, perhaps best of all, you get it all for free. It’s not a particularly good inbox.
     The service is pretty much your standard Web-based e-mail system, not much different from Hotmail or any other, you can visit it from any Web-enabled computer. It supports attachments, displays formatted messages properly, and can read messages from your standard POP e-mail accounts in addition to any other account you set up with Excite. And, just like the other e-mail services on the Web, it’s much slower than non-Web-based e-mail. You do get one unique feature: you can personalize the Excite Inbox with your choice of nine unread-mail icons and 15 color schemes, including Lavender, Techno, and Mint Julep. It’s a nice feature, but not an earth-shattering one.
     For voice mail, then Excite Inbox offers great conveniences for you and annoying hassles for your callers. If your friends call when you’re not at home, they must hang up and call another number (at least it’s toll-free). Then, they must dial or say a ten-digit extension (there are ten billion ten-digit numbers; how many subscribers does Excite hope to get?). They have to wait through a short commercial, then leave their message. And they’d better be brief, because no message can exceed 90 seconds.
    Things can get worse for anyone sending you a fax. They must dial the toll-free number and then the extension, wait through file commercial, and finally press the fax machine’s Start button on cue. While only a minor annoyance for anyone standing over a fax machine, this can be a major challenge for some poor soul sending you a fax from a computer. On the other hand, should anyone leave you a message or send you a fax, it is conveniently listed in your inbox alongside your e-mail messages. Listening to messages and viewing faxes are both simple and easy. You cannot currently send faxes from the Excite Inbox, but Excite @ Home is working in this feature for a future version.
     The service offers some nice ways to stay connected—you can synchronize your inbox data with Microsoft Outlook or Palm Desktop, and if you have a Palm VII, you’ll get wireless access to your messages. If you need free voicemail, the Excite Inbox could be worthwhile. If you want to receive faxes in your e-mail, Excite Inbox is just one choice of many.
What are the inconveniences the Excite Inbox offer to customers?
选项 A、Anyone, who wants to use voice mail to call you when you are not at home, has to call a second number, dial or say a ten-digit extension and wait a while to leave you a message.
B、Anyone who wants to send you a fax must dial the toll-free number and then the extension, wait through the commercial and finally press the fax machine’s Start button on cue.
C、If anyone leaves you a message or sends you a fax, it is conveniently listed in your Inbox alongside your e-mail messages.
D、Both A and B
答案D
解析 本题考查细节辨析。该收件箱也给发件人、发传真的人带来很多不便，假如你不在家，那么别人给你的语音信箱留言就得再拨一个号码，还必须拨叫或呼叫一个10位数字的分机号码。他们还得听完一个短的商业广告才能留下口信。发传真就更麻烦了。必须先拨一个免费号码，然后转分机，等候商业广告播完，最后听到提示后按下传真机上的开始键。选项C 说收件人很方便地看到邮件旁边列出的语音信息和传真是正确的，但不符合题目。故选D 。
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