. . . e-mail is soon to become a dinosaur. It had been a wonderful tool, but it has had its shortcomings. The main one being that anyone can send you any message at no cost to them. This allowed spammers to send 100 billion emails per day in April of 2008 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_email). Internet users have become sick of this and they are starting to do something about it.

In 2009, Boston College stopped distributing e-mail addresses to incoming freshmen. So that must mean that students and professors are going to communicate another way. My guess is that it will be through blogs and other social media that can be closed to unwanted participants.

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