“If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.” Robert Cringely Vanishing eMails might be one of the worst things when it comes to eMail communication. It’s just too easy to depend on eMail. Sure, some people might overlook an eMail, or not consider the mail important enough to reply. But it’s hard to image that an eMail might get lost. During that last two weeks a handful of eMails vanished. I know that they were sent. With the help of the IT at the institute I learned that they did reach the institute eMail-server. But somehow between them arriving on the server and getting to my eMail client … they simply vanished. They were logged as delivered but they never arrived. A very annoying, very stressful situation. What makes the situation worse is that I created the problem myself. I noticed it when I did search by sender for an eMail which did arrive, and two other eMails — which had vanished — suddenly were shown as well. In the trash. No idea why they did not [...]
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