It is common knowledge that the email facility is both a wonderful invention and a disturbing nuisance. It offers a convenient way to communicate with people around the world effortlessly, but it can also serve as a tool to harass and humiliate the recipients of a message. Christine Crandell, reporting on a 2015 Adobe Systems study, discloses that, on average, people spend 6.3 hours each day going through and responding to email messages. She admits that the checking of email, which she describes as “the most convenient form of social escapism,” is an addiction that takes up a significant amount of people’s time. It has become a burgeoning industry, the history of which only started in 1971. The origins of email are controversial, with Ray Tomlinson, a computer engineer, claiming that he invented email in 1971. However, V. A. Shiva Ayyadurai contradicted this claim by insisting that he created email …