Death by spam: lazy email marketing is killing our inboxes

It took Cory Doctorow 30 days to unsubscribe from 3,000 ‘legitimate’ email lists – the kind of marketing that threatens to overload this critical, federated platformNevada’s Black Rock desert is not a hospitable place when you need to check your email. At the Burning Man festival in September, I was trying to get online between dust storms, travelling between camps on the vast playa in the desert, searching for a functional antenna and trying to find enough shade to see m