E-mail Bankruptcy?

I recently read an article about e-mail bankruptcy. This term was quite new to me but the essence of it is that someone has so many e-mails that they will never possibly catch-up on them so they delete them all and tell everybody if they had sent something important they should try again.

So, I have translated traditional bankruptcy avoidance advice into e-mail bankruptcy avoidance advice.

• Don't overextend yourself, with e-mail it is easy to overextend yourself by signing up for every e-mail newsletter that looks even remotely interesting. It will cost you time (money) even to delete each of those e-mails. Each time you fill out a form online, pay close attention to the lines that offer to keep you updated, update=e-mail.
• Spend less than you earn, just because you can sign up for 14 different e-mail accounts plus your work e-mail doesn't mean you should. Keep it simple, one home account one work account. If you can use only one for everything. Make sure people know you only respond to certain accounts.
• Save money, not sure how this translates in e-mail. Maybe save disk space by deleting, maybe don't ever delete.
  
• Pay your bills on time. Don't ignore your inbox until it is unmanageable.
  

If you cannot get out of the e-mail debt you are currently in maybe e-mail bankruptcy is for you. There is after-all no e-mail credit reporting agency! :) If you need a strategy for paying off real (financial) debts then you might be interested in what Dave Ramsey has to say.