Comments on: Email is not dead (yet)

By: Leo

Leo — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:51:03 +0000

I found this info very interesting and useful. Thanx a lot.

By: Michael Tangen

Michael Tangen — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:45:05 +0000

The likelihood (or even the illusion) of e-mail going away anytime soon is preposterous. Regardless of the annoyances it’s still a viable mode of communication for the world over. Despite unsolicited calls on our phones from telemarketers (even with supposed “do not call” lists) we still use phones. The same is going to be with e-mail. We suffer some annoyances and interruptions to our “productivity” (i.e. playing Mine Sweeper or watching YouTube videos in between documents requiring our attention); but we still use it.

And Mike…don’t even bring up IE7. A buggy, insecure browser that attempts to function like Firefox. BAH! The world does not revolve around Windows nor its proprietary components.

While we might see an evolved form of e-mail surface (like GMail), SMTP/POP3/IMAP protocol isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.

By: tim bulkeley

tim bulkeley — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:24:32 +0000

Email is a quick, easy, low demand (on the user) means of asynchronous one-to-one (or a specified few) means of communication. Till someone invents a “Web 2.0″ way of achieving these goals (consistently, reliably and near universally) most of us are stuck with it!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:26:06 +0000

IM has more potential to be annoying than email. RSS can take over the bulk emails / press releases / news distribution but what about for personal communications — how does RSS work there for initial contacts?

By: Mike Riversdale

Mike Riversdale — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:20:09 +0000

The examples you have given are probably the reason why people/organisations are talking about moving away from email as the primary communication tool (as it is in the electronic world, people still talk face-to-face more

Email is powerful but, in some manner, in an increasingly annoying and destructive way – I suspect RSS (and underlying content creation/publication places) and IM will start the take over once the adoption of IE 7 / Vista and mobile computing occur (those running purely on-line are already there).