dallas - actually I meant that now most people can have access to a proper Internet terminal (not something screwed around with by Plod on your work PC), at least they don't have to wait for personal letter mail to make its tortuous way to the recipient through the military post system....
Once, as a test, I put a letter to myself in the Islas Malvinas in the Sqn out tray the day I left the UK. It took 3 weeks to arrive! Even on Bennycom I could send and receive e-mail - but at a wondrous 17.6 Kbps and £1+ per minute.