7. The computer program product of claim 6 wherein (A) comprises: (A1) program code for providing a document summarization function for creating a summary of the document, the summary comprising selected content of the document processed by the document summarization function.
6. A computer program product for use with a computer system operatively coupled to a network and capable of executing a communication process for sending and receiving electronic mail documents, the computer program product comprising a computer readable memory having embodied therein program code comprising: (A) program code for summarizing a document existing at a current level of a hierarchical organization of documents; (B) program code for storing the results of the summarization process of (A) in a separate summary document, said summary document being neither the document summarized and existing at the current level nor a document existing at a level of the hierarchical organization adjacent the current level; (C) program code for identifying another document that exists at a level of the hierarchical organization adjacent the current level; (D) program code for designating the adjacent level of the hierarchical organization as the current level of the hierarchical organization; and (E) program code for repeatedly executing (A) through (D) until no document exists at any level of the hierarchical organization adjacent the current level.