My sons have email accounts now. We are hoping it improves their writing skills. But there's some trepidation about all this. I mean, what if a Nigerian queen asks them for money or a friend of theirs forwards them a Forrestmail?

Parental thoughts on 10/8 year olds and email?
I've pretty much found that email in general confirms that most people are awful awful writers. So good luck!
The point of the exercise is to engage them in written emails and help them work on their writing by exposing them to good writing and helping them work on theirs (correct punctuation, encourage proper sentence structure, build vocabulary, discourage redundancy, built their typing skills). Wait until your kids are in grade school and you have to help them with their writing with pencil and paper. But yes, your point about people being bad writers in general is understood, despite not being germane to my query.