An Email You Can't Answer

is not communication.

I don't know when it will happen, but it will happen sooner or later.

Groupies (like me, I admit it) who signed up for Ekhardt Tolle's giant online seminar and didn't watch it will eventually get fed up by emails from Oprah with the salutation, Dear Gloria ...Oprah wants to know (fill in the blank).

This is also true of the post-Presidential campaign -- which CNN's John King says DavidPlouffe and his ilk are going to turn into a "powerful governing tool."

For a while, it was a thrill to be part of some famous person's social network, chatroom or whatever. But now, or very soon, these unanswerable emails will be regarded as the spam that they are.

I hope the President will consider just posting the stuff on his website and all of us would know to go there if we wanted the info ... really, we would.

Email was the first digital communication tool --- so maybe it's time to move on.