Email better than shiny new comms shock. End of Web 2.0 Imminent?

It must be quite a shock for Web 2.0 'tards to realise that not only is email not dying, its actually quite a lot more useful than a lot of the shiny new things they all hearts. These 3 comments today:

From Dave Winer:

We're adding a 7th way to get your fix of NewsJunk politics -- email. Yeah, it's old and boring, but lots of people still use it! ;->

Of course we'd like to use someone else's service to do the actual distribution, at least at first while we're bootstrapping. In the old days I'd go with Yahoo Groups and not worry about it, but I wonder if there isn't a better Web 2.0 solution out there for email distribution, or if Google Groups is more popular now?

From Stephanie Booth re her experience of getting her recent conference off the ground:

Back to basics: e-mail. E-mail, be it under the shape of a newsletter, a discussion list, or simple personal messages, has a huge advantage over other forms of online communication: you’re sure people know how to use it. It’s the basic, level 0 tool that anybody online has and understands.

When such people start to edge back to email, you can hear the sounds of the Web 2.0 foundations - or the shiny new comms part any way - starting to crack.....