Well, if the unending torrential flood of email is any metric, Rob “Scobleizer” Scoble is clearly drowning in his success.

Mr. Scoble sympathizes with Mike Arrington:

If you aren’t a journalist or a blogger with an audience you have no idea what Mike is talking about. I get hundreds of emails every day, many of which are from people, companies, and PR firms asking me to blog stuff. …

I absolutely hate dealing with this stuff. For the most part I just simply don’t. I don’t respond. I learned that answering email causes even more email and I simply don’t have time. All I did yesterday was dig through email and I barely made a dent. That’s why I’m up at 2:40 a.m. editing videos.

I guess the question is “Why have an email address at all if you’re not going to bother answering – OR, find it hard to answer in any reasonable amount of time?”

[Aside -- think what you want of Richard Edelman, the dude answers the comments on his blog personally by email -- and THAT is classy]
We can look to Mike Arrington’s own admission that he recently deleted hundreds and hundreds of emails after one wild debauched weekend at the Online News Association Conference as an example.
Perhaps another way of looking at it is that when bloggers get so large they can’t answer their own emails in expedient fashion, should they have an email address to respond to – “disclosing” that people might never get a reply ….

… or do the media 1.0 thing, and just hire someone?