“E-mail, once the most effective way to communicate with your tech-savvy associates, has become useless for too many people. Has anyone else noticed this phenomenon? It’s essentially dead.”

John C. Dvorak, 9 Reasons E-Mail Is Dead – PC Magazine

Oh Baloney. I guess if he was honest, the title would have been 9 Reasons Why I Don’ Like E-mail As Much As I Use To Because It’s Not As Useful As It Should Be. Which wouldn’t have been nearly as catchy.

Sure it’s annoying when people don’t answer, or don’t bother to check their e-mail for a week. Spamming should be a felony, and spammers should be in prison. But saying e-mail is dead because of such annoyances is like saying telephones don’t work because people won’t return your calls. Or that snail mail doesn’t work because of the obsolete stamps.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with the e-mail system; it’s the people who don’t use it right that make it a pain.

Come on, Dvorak, keep it real.