The Death of E-Mail

Iria

Source: Slate
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By 2002, everyone in my family had become an Internet convert. For the technophobic older generation, signing up for an e-mail account was a concession to us youngsters—if the kids don't call home, they thought, we'll just reach them through the computer. Everyone was especially eager to send messages to my niece, a kid who wasn't all that chatty on the phone but was almost always glued to her PC. But while the rest of us happily exchanged forwards and life updates, she almost never piped up. Eventually, I sussed out the truth: She was too busy sending IMs and text messages to bother with e-mail. That's when I realized that my agility with e-mail no longer marked me as a tech-savvy young adult. It made me a lame old fogey.

Zardon

absolute cobblers.

BlueMak

Funny thing about teenagers, they tend to grow up.

If email is dead then so are stupid articles.
But as we can see, neither is true.

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germanjulian

email dead?????? check my bosses inbox.. 100 emails a day (all work)

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Matth

And another 200 spam?

I would choose NOT to receive essential communication by email, that way I don't have to care about the spam filter nuking anything critical.

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OmegaRED

I agree that email is dead and I'm going to email this article to 100 people on my address book so they'll know too.

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brutusmaximus

server side filtering? easy enough to combat

Well ill be honest, After reading many of your posts I think you just hate anything that is over 1k in size and would be quite happy sending smoke signals around to everyone. I certainly don't mean that to be offensive, but you apparently hate graphics, flash, most operating systems and in fact many improvements in technology.

In my job email is a lifesaver and a wonderful way to communicate. you don't have to deal with a phone call every minute, and I certainly dont wan't to be dealing with instant messaging either as everyone demands an answer immediately. Fine for talking to friends at night, or like the author of this article from the perspective of a schoolgirl !

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Matth

The point is, how much percentage has be spam, before it is accepted that the current status of email is broken, maybe broken beyond repair unless better countermeasures than individual destination filtering are rolled out right now.

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Mary had a little lamb,
Her father shot it dead
Now Mary takes her lamb to school,
Between two crusts of bread

Zelig

I've got one of my monitors pretty much dedicated to instant messages, I just let windows pile up there, and answer them at my leisure... if anyone wants a prompt response from me, they're much better off phoning.

With both my university email and my gmail account, I've never had a single false positive message, and get maybe one message per month that the filters don't catch... seems to be working well enough.

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