Of course, I'm a nobody, so what's it matter...
Seriously, such self-indulgent self-pity is not an attractive look.
Up until about 15-20 years ago, that is what civilization has done for the past 200,000 years - one on one communication.
I guess I'm just an old timer.
Bosh.
So, I guess I can never email a pastor to ask for spiritual advice. (Maybe I'm new in town?)
I cannot email a business to ask if they have a product I want.
Cannot ask how to vote by mail from the local gov't.
Emailing someone whose email is listed on their website is out.
And the list goes on and on.
Are your rules the same in real life?
Could I walk up to you and ask you the time?
Would you mind if I commented on how nice you look today?
People really are *miserable* in today's world, aren't they?
What a silly post.
1. A pastor has a different relationship - by dint of their professional calling - to people (and emails) and, by definition, will be receptive (at least during office hours, and often well beyond that) to being contacted cold.
2. A business will welcome an email, if you are seeking to purchase something, such as a good, or service; this is a commercial transaction, one of mutual benefit.
3. A local govt is a public service. Of course they will reply, if dispensing the information you seek is part of their remit as a public service.
4. Emailing someone whose email is on their site is not out; however, they may choose not to reply to you.
5. Yes. These days, I am rather keen on policing my boundaries.
6. Re asking the time: I am a short, middle-aged, bespectacled female. While I will usually respond (positively), I will also do a "threat assessment": Is the person who asks me this question large, imposing, well-built, male, young...standing uncomfortably close to me....
A harassed mother - I will always answer, likewise a child, or an elderly person.
Do they wear a wrist watch or carry an iPhone? (In which case, why are they wasting my time by asking me the time?)
What time is it (for me, not for them - i.e. I am less benevolently disposed to responding positively and politely to such requests at night)? Where is it - a nice, middle class area, or a city centre?
7. Yes. If it is in a professional setting - unless I know you and like you (and trust you) - I will make a negative assumption about you, that you judge women physically not professionally. If you want to compliment a woman in a professional setting, compliment her on what she does ("that was a great presentation", "that was a terrific article you wrote") not on how she looks.
8. No, they are not. But, you know what? The world changes.....
You can. Just don't expect a reply, and get off the pedestal of "what I am sending is important so they must reply."
Well said.
To be honest this thread here reminds me of that that I got stuck with this "concerned citizen" which gave me a looooong lecture on public budgeting to explain why my job (and that of my colleagues) was not only irrelevant but damaging. He reached the point in which "Police, Fire, and Administration should be outsourced to private companies."
Agreed.
The OP wants to hear what he wants to hear, not what we write and advise.
What I sent wasn't an "opinion". I took data that has been compiled by experts in the field, and I turned raw data into visual information that any person can consume.
And my ideas must have been noteworthy, because several national newspapers stole my story line.
Of course I didn't email you, and if I did you wouldn't have read it, but had you done that, maybe you wouldn't talk to me like I'm some fool...
But what you asked in your thread - and in your original post - was an opinion: You asked others to tell you why people do not respond to your emails. And they did, but you don't much care for what they have told you.
My sense is that you would prefer not to have to hear what they have told you (in good faith) but to insist that you have a right to bludgeon the inboxes of those you wish to contact and to have them respond to you as you wish.
