Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Disappearing emails

SMS text exchange between Miles and Zuzanna

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Zuzanna: Y U not reply to my EMs? Sent 3 in last 2 days.

Miles: I replied. Sent U 5 EMs.

Zuzanna: Nothing frm U. Strange! Black holes in the Internet?

Miles: Did U MayB report one of my replies as nuisance mail? That would have blocked future mail from me 2 U.

Zuzanna: Oh. I might have. What to do?

Miles: Quickest if you make a new EM address and we'll test it.

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Voiceover

That report function for flagging spam can lose you friends and relations. When you press report, check who you've flagged. Totally unexplainable disappearances could be due to the recently highlighted Internet "black holes" where data just inexplicably vanishes. Interesting that Zuzanna and Miles are using SMSing as a backup channel.

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