Email is evil?

We're at our two day online marketing and new media class/seminar/workshop thing ... and we're thinking...

• is email relevant?
• it's annoying
• intrusive
• time consuming
• addictive
• often poorly written with lots of seplling mistakes
• not as good as a phone call 
• impersonal - cos you could see someone, but who wants to see people?
• necessary - we wouldn't be without it
• fast 
• traceable - could get you into trouble - eg. when you address to the person you're writing about.
• full of spam
• fills up your inbox
• personalised fonts and auto signatures with photos of cats and comic sans writing (ugh!)
• people who leave FWD>FWD>FWD> etc! So untidy
• LOTS OF EXCLAMATION MARKS !!!!! IS THAT BAD?????
• (not so evil) Angels etc. made out of emoticons - quite clever
• LOL 
• Email language hz bcum mr lk txt language >:-(
• Demands a quick response
• People who put "high priority" on every email
• People who forward really bad jokes

Okay, I think that's enough. So is email really evil? Or are there a few good features in there?

(Thanks for the photo, gagilas!) 

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