One of the best thing I love about email – it’s predictability of delivery.
You always (well, almost almost always) know if your email was delivered or not. Either your email shows up in the mailbox of the recipient or warning shows up in your mailbox. Nothing disappears in the middle. It could well be one of the most important reasons of popularity of email communications at the dawn of Internet.
That was before Anti-Spam was invented. Anti-Spam programs or gateways can and often do delete emails without any trace. In the last years I think 90% of the time my emails were not received was due to a spam filter.
Anti-Spam takes form the emails it’s predictability.
Well, fortunately now there are other, even more predictable electronic means of communication, like instant messaging.
