A couple of days ago I was chatting with SitePoint’s Managing Editor Matt Magain over instant messenger. That’s a daily occurrence, but what made this chat a bit different than usual is that it was about 3am in Australia where Matt is located. What was he doing up so late? Clearing out his email inbox.

If that sounds like a familiar scenario — it does to me — then you too might be an email addict. The results from AOL’s fourth annual email addiction survey revealed that Americans, at least, are a nation of email addicts, and it’s getting worse. We’d be willing to bet that the same is true in many wired nations.