E-mail users declare 'bankruptcy'

NEW YORK, May 25 (UPI) -- Increasing numbers of business professionals with high levels of e-mail are following a New York venture capitalist's example and wiping their inboxes clean.

College professors, business professionals and others are increasingly declaring e-mail bankruptcy and sending out mass messages that all recent missives are being deleted in an attempt to start over with a more manageable amount, The Washington Post reported Friday.

"I am so far behind on e-mail that I am declaring bankruptcy," venture capitalist Fred Wilson wrote told his correspondents -- via e-mail, of course.

"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."

David Ferris, of research firm Ferris Research, told the Post the 6 trillion business e-mail messages sent in 2006 left many workers feeling their work is never done.

"A lot of people like the feeling that they have everything done at the end of the day," he said in the Post report. "They can't have it anymore."