email bankruptcy
n.— «I’ve blogged before about the stupidity of inbox limits, but most people face them so a lot of people are nearing the need to declare e-mail bankruptcy. (That’s what happens when you just delete your whole inbox and start over.)» —“How I went from 3000 e-mails in my inbox to less than 200 catagorized ones” by Charlie O’Donnell This is going to be BIG Jan. 4, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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