The bane of email

I remember not too long ago the joys of emailing, easily keeping in touch with friends and family in all the far corners of the world. Hours spent procrastinating in university computer labs keeping tabs on your buddies doing exactly the same thing. Checking out genuinly funny or disgusting attachment. The thing I dont remember is when this joy started to become a pain in the ass, the bane of computing. Emailing has evolved or mutatet to such an extent that it only retains a skeleton of its former self. Its a tedious chore now, its become a medium of work and vehicle for extra curricular employment activities. , How many peoples emails do we avoid and not even read a day, how many good emails do we get and not to mention how many spam emails do we get a day. What is the ratio to enjoyable emails to 'necessary' emails. It used to be that emails were easier than phone calls, now I would rather call someone for fear of contacting them via email and then concurrently receiving 4-6 emails from them a day with brain numbing inquiries. I feel bad for my buddy JP who spends about an hour a night answering work emails on his blackberry even if were out having a bbq or having a brew. Down with email, may snail mail rise from the ashes of our crumbling email architecture.