Direct mail is a broad term that includes the following types of mailed promotions: Institutional direct mail serves to promote the name of the publishing house with no reasonable expectation of sales revenues.
The touch command is the easiest way to create new, empty files. It is also used to change the timestamps (i.e., dates and times of the most recent access and modification) on existing files and directories. touch's syntax is. touch [option] file_name(s)
But as I matured as a user I found CLI (command line interface) was more efficient than fiddling with the buttons of a tool. CLI also allows users to be independent of distros. Just look at the derivates of Ubuntu, even if they use the same code-base they have different tools to do the same job.