I remember ezines use to be fairly common. Most websites would have some type of email newsletter.

However, now it seems that ezines have become mostly obsolete.

Email marketing has already become much less useful because it has been so abused by spammers. Additionally, people do not use email to keep in touch as much since they can use internet messengers, social networking websites, and cell-phones.

Most of all, I think the massive influx of blogs and blogging over the last few years has made ezines redundant and pointless. An email newsletter could just be published as a blog. People can subscribe to the blog using RSS, and webmasters can easily turn their RSS into an email update service. Also, non-subscribers can come to the blog to see new posts.

What do you think? Do you ezines are obsolete?