E-Mail Reply to All: 'Leave Me Alone'

E-MAIL REPLY TO ALL: 'LEAVE ME ALONE'
[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: Mike Musgrove]
The supposed convenience of electronic mail, like so many other innovations of technology, has become too much for some people. Swamped by an unmanageable number of messages -- the volume of e-mail traffic has nearly doubled in the past two years, according to research firm DYS Analytics -- and plagued by annoying spam and viruses, some users are saying "Enough!" Those declaring bankruptcy are swearing off e-mail entirely or, more commonly, deleting all old messages and starting fresh. E-mail overload gives many workers the sense that their work is never done, said senior analyst David Ferris, whose firm, Ferris Research, said there were 6 trillion business e-mails sent in 2006. "A lot of people like the feeling that they have everything done at the end of the day," he said. "They can't have it anymore." So some say they're moving back to the telephone as their preferred means of communication.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/24/AR200705...
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