Comments on: Short Post: Is Email Dying? http://mediavorous.com/archives/short-post-is-email-dying A blog about where culture, new media, marketing and community collide... in people's heads. Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:14:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: David http://mediavorous.com/archives/short-post-is-email-dying/comment-page-1#comment-36249 David Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:42:12 +0000 http://mediavorous.com/?p=243#comment-36249 I don't know whether it's dying, but it will certainly have to evolve -- whatever happened to the potentially spam-killing notion of charging senders a tiny fee if the recipient doesn't accept an email? Small enough (pennies?) not to be a major nuisance if it happens only occasionally, but enouugh to deter those who send out bulk emails wantonly or indiscriminately. As for me, I have more or less the exact four-account setup Brent describes above. Maybe we're related. I don’t know whether it’s dying, but it will certainly have to evolve — whatever happened to the potentially spam-killing notion of charging senders a tiny fee if the recipient doesn’t accept an email? Small enough (pennies?) not to be a major nuisance if it happens only occasionally, but enouugh to deter those who send out bulk emails wantonly or indiscriminately.

As for me, I have more or less the exact four-account setup Brent describes above. Maybe we’re related.

]]> By: Brent http://mediavorous.com/archives/short-post-is-email-dying/comment-page-1#comment-35600 Brent Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:30:22 +0000 http://mediavorous.com/?p=243#comment-35600 - It isn't just you, it is also all the Gen Yers who are using text messaging and cell phone calls more than email. - This post makes me want to send multiple messages to every email account that I know of for you, several times a day, just to be perverse. - NINE email accounts? Yeah, uh, that's the problem. What you need is at most four: 1) Work 2) Personal, with filters for newsletters and/or ecommerce 3) Abuse targets (for when you are compelled to leave an email address but you in no way want to be communicated with by those requiring it) 4) Facebook (which is sort of email and sort of not, and would be better if it were somehow integrated with regular email, but since regular email is stuck in 1989, that's unlikely to happen for a while. Good luck with all that... - It isn’t just you, it is also all the Gen Yers who are using text messaging and cell phone calls more than email.

- This post makes me want to send multiple messages to every email account that I know of for you, several times a day, just to be perverse.

- NINE email accounts? Yeah, uh, that’s the problem. What you need is at most four:
1) Work
2) Personal, with filters for newsletters and/or ecommerce
3) Abuse targets (for when you are compelled to leave an email address but you in no way want to be communicated with by those requiring it)
4) Facebook (which is sort of email and sort of not, and would be better if it were somehow integrated with regular email, but since regular email is stuck in 1989, that’s unlikely to happen for a while.

Good luck with all that…

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