Phil Butler looks at the history of @, and says that email will always be with us, both because it is a capable system for delivering both short and long messages. And the @ symbol will persist as it allows us to send to different people on different platforms.
While Comscore and other analysis firms point to the relative decline in Email usage worldwide as a sign the venerable @ is dwaning, mail deliveries have grown continually to the point where nearly 2 billion Emails are being sent out daily.
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