Mark Holtz
07-30-06, 08:10 AM
From consumeraffiairs.com:
The Death of E-Mail?Even as consumers shift more and more of their daily tasks and chores to the Web, one famous form of online communication is losing its luster.
E-mail, that staple of your daily work and social life, is withering from a combination of excessive spam and the onslaught of "instant" messaging services for the attention-challenged.FULL ARTICLE HERE (http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/07/email_fading.html)
Sigh.... I've been predicting this for years. I stated that the most useful tool of the Internet, e-mail, was being rendered useless by the Spammers. Lord knows that I have dealt with too many full mailboxes because of mailbox abandonment. (Then, of course, there is the problem of forwarding the joke that is inside an attachment which is inside yet another attachment, and the whole string of pictures inside one e-mail). This reminds me of an article I saw years ago...
From SF Gate:
ONLINE CRIME: A Booming Business
PHISHING
Legitimate e-mail gets cast asideWhen Michael Kaminer sends an e-mail, the public relations executive is careful not to use phrases like "thanks" or "how are you" in the subject line, which could get his message deleted before it's even opened. Such wording is often associated with spammers and scammers who try to fool people into reading their e-mails.
If he really needs to get a message through to someone, he doesn't use e- mail at all. FULL ARTICLE HERE (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/11/BUGA4C54I51.DTL&sn=001&sc=1000)
The Death of E-Mail?Even as consumers shift more and more of their daily tasks and chores to the Web, one famous form of online communication is losing its luster.
E-mail, that staple of your daily work and social life, is withering from a combination of excessive spam and the onslaught of "instant" messaging services for the attention-challenged.FULL ARTICLE HERE (http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/07/email_fading.html)
Sigh.... I've been predicting this for years. I stated that the most useful tool of the Internet, e-mail, was being rendered useless by the Spammers. Lord knows that I have dealt with too many full mailboxes because of mailbox abandonment. (Then, of course, there is the problem of forwarding the joke that is inside an attachment which is inside yet another attachment, and the whole string of pictures inside one e-mail). This reminds me of an article I saw years ago...
From SF Gate:
ONLINE CRIME: A Booming Business
PHISHING
Legitimate e-mail gets cast asideWhen Michael Kaminer sends an e-mail, the public relations executive is careful not to use phrases like "thanks" or "how are you" in the subject line, which could get his message deleted before it's even opened. Such wording is often associated with spammers and scammers who try to fool people into reading their e-mails.
If he really needs to get a message through to someone, he doesn't use e- mail at all. FULL ARTICLE HERE (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/11/BUGA4C54I51.DTL&sn=001&sc=1000)