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For six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul

Thursday, July 29, 2004

Too much of a good thing

Salon (registration required): "The problems with e-mail go far beyond spam; indeed, for all the grousing over spam, getting rid of easily identifiable unsolicited commercial mail is probably one of the easier tricks engineers will pull off in the years ahead. The real crisis is with the legitimate mail -- we're drowning in it. Every day, dozens or hundreds of people -- people we want to keep in touch with -- use e-mail to make demands on our time. And it's not only the volume of mail that's killing us, it's also the variety. If you're a 'knowledge worker' -- and who isn't a knowledge worker these days? -- just about every facet of your life is tracked by e-mail. You use mail not just to communicate, but to order and organize your existence: E-mail's where we keep our travel itineraries, our tax forms, our doctor's appointment reminders, our wedding pictures. If the cops were ever to ask you what you were doing on the night of so and so, where, besides e-mail, would you look for your alibi?"

Thanks Keith.

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