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Junk maleOne of the perils of modern working is the never-ending email trail that follows us all round. We are constantly bombarded with emails offering us things we don't want (or, shall we say, desperately do want but suspect probably don't work with quite the efficacy that the unsolicited email suggests they might), not to mention the swathes of circulars we may one day have signed up to receive but now cannot find any way of stopping (you know who you are, New York Times news updates). And in the middle of this, no doubt, there are dozens of important and interesting emails that are getting sent to the wrong address or being eaten by one of those IT things that nerds give tough names to, like  SpamNuke or perhaps Junkmailapocalypse. So one would like to congratulate CBoT on...