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Is Email 'Bankrupt'?

Posted by Zonk on from the knew-i-shouldn't-have-bought-all-that-stock dept.

Gary W. Longsine writes "The Washington Post writes about a Venture Capitalist and blogger, Fred Wilson, who recently declared 'e-mail bankruptcy', wiping out his inbox and starting over because he couldn't keep up. Spam is cited as one reason. There have been several public incidents, some cited in the article, where the flow of email is just too much to keep up. 'If there is a downside to completely turning a back on e-mail, it's not one many former users notice. Stanford computer science professor Donald E. Knuth started using e-mail in 1975 and stopped using it 15 years later. Knuth said he prefers to concentrate on writing books rather than be distracted by the steady stream of communication.' Is email just too hectic a communication form for some people? Is email dead?"

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  1. I don't know... by Chris+Chiasson · · Score: 5, Funny

    but when I figure it out, I'll shoot you an email.

    1. Re:I don't know... by ChetOS.net · · Score: 2, Funny

      Email is dead. Long live email!

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  2. Yes by Himring · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes. Email, computers and cell phones are all dead....

    Yet again, I will shake my head that the editors turned down my ww2 tank find story (you know, where these guys in russia go out with metal detectors and find submerged german and russian tanks around kursk -- I think it was -- and restore them)....

    Gah!

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  3. Re:Its morally bankrupt. by eviloverlordx · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, sexually bankrupt actually.


    So that's why I keep getting all of those Viagra and Cialis spams.
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  4. I'm going to hire someone to read my e-mail... by Cr0w+T.+Trollbot · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...just as soon as I get that $7 million I have coming to me from a Nigerian Prince.

    Crow T. Trollbot

    1. Re:I'm going to hire someone to read my e-mail... by SnarfQuest · · Score: 2, Funny

      He offered me $42,000,000 (forty too millian dallers).

      He likes me more than you!

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  5. bah by pytheron · · Score: 3, Funny

    Same thing happens with mobile numbers... too many stalker girls get a hold of it, and before you know it, you don't want to read your texts/listen to your answerphone. So you change your number and let people who you want to contact you have the new one. Simple. Works fine with mobiles. If someone really urgently needs to get hold of you, they will be able to. The same works for email addresses. Stop getting so attached to numbers/email addresses. They are only tools to facilitate contact.

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  6. Re:Of course! by ender- · · Score: 4, Funny

    Judging by the millions of people who use email every second, I think it's safe to place bets on email being dead. Yup. Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. :)
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  7. Confirmation from.. by the.Ceph · · Score: 4, Funny

    Email might be dead, but I'm going to keep using it until Netcraft confirms it.

  8. Re:People are too easy to distract by robably · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ah, the evil approach to managing your email. I imagine you glower contemptuously at people who ask you stupid questions, too.

  9. Re:Obligatory... by hotdiggitydawg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Email is dead, Netcraft confirms it. As dead as the late Prince Namuga Abacha, may God rest his soul, whose inheritance I will soon be acting as an intermediary on as soon as the legals have been cleared, which seem to be costing a bit of money. Now where did I put my checkbook?
  10. Re:Of course! by BrokenHalo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Indeed. A friend of mine was just recently hauled over the carpet for failing to answer a call from her boss on her mobile phone when she was in the loo. To her credit, she told him to get fucked.

    Well, I think she said it a bit more professionally than that:

    Like "Go get professionally fucked." ;->

  11. Re:you could at least attribute your quote by vivaoporto · · Score: 3, Funny

    You should attribute if you "borrow" ideas. Otherwise, it looks like you are trying to make it your own.

    --Oscar Wilde
  12. Re:i hate these "email is dead" stories by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Stanford processor


    The truth comes out: Knuth is a bot.

  13. Re:GTD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Agreed! It looks like GTD is completly unknown to these people!

  14. Re:GTD by dgatwood · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why am I suddenly reminded of an episode of DLM?

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  15. Re:you could at least attribute your quote by ender- · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah you guys are right. I couldn't remember who said it and was too lazy to look it up.

    Someone mod me down "-1:Lazy Bastard". :)

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  16. Re:GTD by a_nonamiss · · Score: 1, Funny

    DLM? I was a pretty avid fan of that show, and even I had to Google that reference... :)

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