by Guest » Mon Jan 10, 2005 9:48 am
*I* think it's perfectly fine. It sounds like very little actual mail will be lost. I always ask for and send responses to emails to confirm when important stuff gets/got through. We should all do that.
After all, email is really a giant step BACKWARDS, historically speaking.
First there was the LETTER (how would you know if they got the message? They had to write back). Then, there was the TELEGRAM, where delivery to the key operator at the far end was known, but the recipient still had to send a reply for you to know if he UNDERSTOOD the message (the telegraph company told you if it was undeliverable, and was very reliable). Finally, there was the TELEPHONE, where you received your confirmation instantly: YOU SPOKE TO THE GUY YOURSELF!
Oh, but now it's the 21st century, and we're all modern an' newfangled and all, and we have email, which is: A TELEGRAM! Not a real telegram, mind you, with people to make sure it got through or was accounted for, but a telegram handled by a bunch of DUMB MACHINES and misused by a bunch of criminals [sorry, businessmen doing creative marketing], telegrams which are lost, ignored, mis-typed etc. every day. Yeah, I feel REAL futuristic and modren [sic]. A TELEGRAM! Welcome to 1830!
In all seriousness, if anything at all gets through, and if spamgourmet continues to be even remotely as good as it has been, I consider myself lucky. You guys at spamgourmet are great.