by Pnina Baumgarten
One way to get through that excess of emails waiting for you at the beginning, middle and end of every day is to file for "email bankruptcy":
"Last month, venture capitalist Fred Wilson drew a lot of attention on the Internet when he declared a 21st century kind of bankruptcy. In a posting on his blog about technology, Wilson announced he was giving up on responding to all the e-mail piled up in his inbox.Link: E-Mail Reply to All: 'Leave Me Alone' - washingtonpost.com
"'I am so far behind on e-mail that I am declaring bankruptcy,' he wrote. 'If you've sent me an e-mail (and you aren't my wife, partner, or colleague), you might want to send it again. I am starting over.'
"The term 'e-mail bankruptcy' may have been coined as early as 1999..."
