Many thanks to Curly for broaching such a fruitful avenue in peevedom for us to explore: e-mail. Here's my first contribution:
Faithful readers, if you will be away for more than a couple of days (I'm not talking about weekends--you have a pass for weekends), please do enable the auto-response feature of your e-mail program and inform your correspondents of your absence. It may be irrational, but the speed of e-mail has led many of us to expect relatively prompt replies to our own outgoing messages. Please do us the courtesy of letting us know that you're not necessarily ignoring us, and our e-mail messages have not necessarily been diverted into the cyber-netherworld. We just have to be patient. We can accept this--so long as we're informed.
And then, of course, please remember to disable the same feature once you've returned.
Many thanks!
--Prunella
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I completely agree with this post. I hate sending an e-mail to someone and then having to wait a week for the response!
Thanks for stopping by, Nicole, and for the comment!
--Prunella
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