For all the hype about social networking Web sites, the most popular and successful way to network by the Web is still the oldest: e-mail. whether it’s organized properly, boring old e-mail can reveal as much or more info about the citizens you know and their relationships with you as hipper services such as MySpace or Facebook.

that is particularly true whether you are the kind of person who saves most of his or her e-mail. That mound

of messages can be a treasure-trove of contact info and a history of your interactions with hundreds, or thousands, of personal and business acquaintances. It can tell you the phone numbers and job titles of society, and even whom you and your correspondents most often copy on e-mail. It’s a sort of social network all its own.

The trouble is, it’s hard to tease all that knowledge out of the typical […]

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