email bankruptcy
n.— «If you’ve been waiting for internet legal visionary Lawrence Lessig to reply to your e-mail, forget about it. In a script-driven note sent out last week, Lessig wrote: “Dear person who sent me a yet-unanswered e-mail, I apologize, but I am declaring e-mail bankruptcy.”» —“Call It the Dead E-Mail Office” by Michael Fitzgerald Wired June 7, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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