The death of e-mail

Probably spawned by Paolo Valdemarin's observation that he received over a thousand spams during a week's absence from his computer (well, what's so special about that?), there's an intense discussion going on [see Schockwellenreiter, Randgänge, WorldWideKlein, shutterclog] whether E-mail is still in any way useful or needs to be replaced by some other format.

Especially as a new and particularly nasty security threat, Mail Non Delivery Message DDoS Attacks, is looming on the horizon.

I'm not sure whether I should force other users to use a contact form. I'm certainly not willing to get a new email address every six months. Consequently, reaching me by e-mail will become more difficult as time progresses.

If you send me an e-mail and I don't respond, it probably got eaten by some spam filter. Rewrite the mail, avoiding the words "free", "money", "member", "prescription" or "friend", don't use HTML-formatted mail, always use a meaningful subject line, and I may eventually receive it.

And never send any unrequested attachments. Those mails are deleted immediately.