Jeremy Liew: Will email be dead in 5 years?

I think too many people have been subjected to bad e-mail interfaces for too long, especially with regards to spam. Being exposed to a nice interface like GMail or a personally-configured solution with a nice SpamAssassin learning filter would go a long way towards making people appreciate e-mail more. I always find myself surprised when people still cite spam as a major problem, but those are inevitably the people who are using a default install of Outlook or a crappy webmail interface for their school. E-mail might die for these people, but for those of us who know how to actually use e-mail effectively, I don't think it will ever die.

Bla-bla-bla... Another healthy dose of "Web 2.0 BS" SMS, IM, chat, blogs with comments and message boards have been around forever: 10 years easy. <p>Somehow ex-CTO of AOL managed to stay mostly unaware of those things for quite some time.

No, especially because some of the email killers he cites,like email aggregators and integrated email/IM, are still email!