I'm deeply sorry, but the entire article is just a rant about personal frustrations, and some figures thrown around. Nothing valid or worthy of reading. Bloggin

I'm deeply sorry, but the entire article is just a rant about personal frustrations, and some figures thrown around. Nothing valid or worthy of reading. Blogging at its finest. First of all the term "email" refers to a technology, a means to deliver messages. All of this is _brilliantly_ standardized by RFCs, which in my opinion make it the most viable technical solution to open, free and reliable messaging in the world. Yes, things can be improved - as always - but email is and will be here for the long run. What the author is actually frustrated about is the services he's using; e-mail clients to be more specific. There are many ways to configure an email server and client to filter out spam, unsolicited email and how to manage the entire pool of emails received, by filtering and organizing. If your Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo or whatever-client you're using doesn't do its job properly, maybe try something else instead of blaming "email". Email is not invasive at all. The clients (email software) can be invasive - alerts, popups and all that - and the habits of an email user/consumer can lead to messages being invasive. And on the above, if you're using free Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail or such, what do you expect? If you keep subscribing online to all sorts of promotions, contents and newsletters, in the hope to get rich overnight, what do you expect? Maybe next time when you sign-up for some free service, you actually pay attention to those checkboxes that say "Yes, subscribe me to this useless newsletters", before blaming "email". I personally use email as my primary means of communication, especially when it comes to business and on-the-record messages, but also personal when I don't feel like having my privacy poked around by Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other commercial services. It's not as fast as chat, but it's more reliable and gives the other party the chance to reply when they finish their more important business if any. If you declare email bankruptcy, that just means you failed at managing your communications behavior; which is a constant process, not a one-off. Too many people expect email (and many services) to simply adjust to their personal needs, without their smallest effort/input. There is no one size fits all, not even on the internet. And without email, we'd still be at the FAX stage.