Thanks Tim for your polite and thoughtful 
response ^_^ I appreciate your suggestions, and I 
was just thinking about this myself. This letter 
is not directed to you personally ^_^, but I had 
to say something about my e-mail status. See the 
thing is, I get about 200  e-mail a day, that's 
1400 e-mail week. I can't read everything, much 
less respond to all of them. I do archive 
everything and try to get the mail ASAP. However, 
that can be 2 weeks from the time when I received 
the e-mail. Imagine if the post office delivered 
200 actual letters to your door every day. Do you 
take advantage of everything that you get in your 
mailbox? I don't think there's a person here who 
doesn't just filter the magazines (read later) 
from the junk mail (trash), the personal letters 
to read then or later, and the bills are put 
somewhere we can remember to pay them when the 
time comes. Now, this philsophy works if you are 
getting 10-20 letters a day. Imagine getting 100-
200 a day. You pull the bills out first, and the 
payments, because you know you need to deal with 
these right away. You filter out letters from 
people who are making you offers on your house or 
whatever, and then you filter again down to 
people you know are trustworthy and will send you 
a payment. You would have a huge stack of 
magazines, because you are too busy reading and 
responding to letters to read anything else. Some 
things that you may have looked at before 
trashing before, you trash anyway (these are 
usually the e-mails like "YOU SELL ME YOUR CELS 
BEA*!$H!!"). Letters from friends who you know 
won't be too pissed if you don't respond right 
away get set aside (my friends are usually the 
people who wait the longest!!) This is what 
happens to me -_-# The things that bother me the 
most are 5-page letters from very nice people who 
just are asking for information about cels or 
goods or whatever. I want to respond to these, 
and if I am having a slow day I respond to 
whatever ones are in my mailbox that very day 
(usually on my lunch break). However, it takes a 
lot of time and effort and I can't just send off 
a form letter. These usually get stuck in 
the "will answer eventually" pile out of respect 
for the person who mailed. I simply cannot answer 
every mail every day, just as you couldn't deal 
with having 200 letters arrive on your doorstep 
every day. Not to mention that I work 12 hours a 
day, I'm actually at work right now on my weekend 
(and I will be here tomorrow), plus I am planning 
my wedding, trying to move out of my house, 
running a side business (Aino) and 3 websites, 
and doing development work for various web 
clients. I usually don't get into bed until 2 am 
and I have to be up by 7:00 am. Imagine living on 
5 hours of sleep or less EVERY DAY.

just my 2 (tired) cents,
misa