SiliconVally.com's Dan Gillmor: E-Mail: Where Do We Go from Here?

Dan Gillmor, a respected observer of Internet trends and columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, is fed up with email. Blaming spammers, virus makers, dumb users, Microsoft and a host of others, he has faint hope that the problem will get better anytime soon. Meanwhile, he puts forth a few rules he's adopted: he opens no attached files, he prefers IM to email whenever possible, and "I'm also encouraging e-mail newsletter people to use the RSS (Really Simple Syndication) format that lets me opt into information sources in other ways and shuts out spammers." The chorus on that last point is only growing louder.

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