What is email bankruptcy
Are you bothered with the accumulating stacks of email on your email account? One of the options is by ending everything and starting a new. You can do this by declaring email bankruptcy. Declaring email bankruptcy means you have to clear your account and start afresh. Usually, people declared email bankruptcy when they do not have time to process new emails and keep up with the old ones. One of the famous personalities who declared email bankruptcy is Lawrence Lessig. Lessig is a professor at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. He declared email bankruptcy in 2004. Another is Michael Arrington, who maintains TechCrunch, a blog on Silicon Valley technology.
How can you declare email bankruptcy
Although declaring email bankruptcy may give you the notion of a long and complicated process, it is actually an easy and short process. All you have to do is to put the email addresses that you deem important in your BCC and write a message containing your intention. You have to make sure that your declaration of email bankruptcy is short and straight to the point. Then you should open your inbox and select the messages that you want to delete. You don’t have to delete the messages one by one, you can just mark all the files for deletion and then hit the delete button. The deleted files can still be recovered by experts. Though, it is best that you make sure that you won’t be needing the files that you plan to delete.