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Email is having an increasingly pernicious effect. Not only is it having a perceptible effect on productivity, it's skewing what it is we focus on. The immediate increasingly crowds out the important.

I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez.

The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.

At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.

I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.

I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.

We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel. We hear people saying, thank you for being fair, for being balanced.

The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million.

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.

I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.