Is Email 'Bankrupt'? 387
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?"
I don't know... (Score:5, Funny)
Yes (Score:2, Funny)
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!
Re:Its morally bankrupt. (Score:5, Funny)
So that's why I keep getting all of those Viagra and Cialis spams.
I'm going to hire someone to read my e-mail... (Score:5, Funny)
Crow T. Trollbot
bah (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Of course! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I'm going to hire someone to read my e-mail... (Score:3, Funny)
He likes me more than you!
Confirmation from.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:People are too easy to distract (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Obligatory... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Of course! (Score:3, Funny)
Well, I think she said it a bit more professionally than that:
Like "Go get professionally fucked."
Re:I don't know... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:you could at least attribute your quote (Score:4, Funny)
Re:i hate these "email is dead" stories (Score:1, Funny)
The truth comes out: Knuth is a bot.
Re:GTD (Score:1, Funny)
Re:GTD (Score:3, Funny)
Why am I suddenly reminded of an episode of DLM?
Re:you could at least attribute your quote (Score:2, Funny)
Someone mod me down "-1:Lazy Bastard".
Re:GTD (Score:2, Funny)