This is going to be very brief, because I'm cooking up a much juicier, interesting post for later. Or maybe to-morrow.
I think all the regular bloggers are pretty familiar with how glitchy the FC servers can be. It's actually somewhat surprising sometimes how technologically rubbish this site can be, what with all the crazy/impressive things being done out there on the web.
Anyway, just in 2007 I have had a minimum of 3 instances on which e-mails I sent or that others sent to me just didn't arrive at their intended destination. I can only guess how many other times that's happened.
My advice is that you should always send a follow-up e-mail in the event of a putative blow-off. Sure, there's always the risk that THAT e-mail won't go through. Plus, there's the potential that you're sending something to somebody who decided they weren't interested, in which case you might come across as too persistent. (But if that's the case, s/he's not worth your time anyway, so I think it's worth it.) On the up side, however, if an e-mail was lost, then this is potentially your only way to re-connect, or to connect in the first place, however the case may be.
Obviously, I'm not going to tell you what exactly to write, but you should be sending follow up e-mails, just in case FC's e-mail servers have been possessed by daemons and/or are hell-bent on ruining your love/sex life.
For the record, therefore, if there's anybody out there that I wrote to, and who wrote me back something impossibly clever and flirty to which I never in turn responded: send me a note! Seriously, I practise what I preach (Cf. Tip for Men and Women #43: How to Not Be a Deadbeat Dater), so no message goes unresponded to. If I'm not interested, I'll tell you; I don't just skulk off to avoid having to actually tell you that I'm not interested. I mean, come on! We're adults here, right? Not children who solve our social problems by hanging out on the other side of the playground.
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