December 20, 2,000
Why From England
Had one of those incredible internet exchanges
this morning that shows how fantastic this technology is! I've
been emailing English newspapers with the word of Joseph Smith's
ascension. I was checking to see if one had come back because I
wasn't sure of the address, when I noticed a reply that said
"WHY?" all in capital letters, so I opened it. It said
"Why are you sending us this foolishness? Even if this was
true what would it matter to anyone in England? This is rather
silly." I thought for a moment, clicked reply to sender, and
managed to type "You have Mormons in England, don't you?"
which is pretty good, for me, considering I can barely spell my
own name, and sent it back. A few minutes later I checked the
mail again and found a message that said "Re: Re: WHY?"
Expecting another obnoxious comment I opened it and was rather
surprised. It said "Er..yes! Rather sorry about that. Of
course! We'll pass your comments on the the proper person. Don't
know if we'll use it, but it will be considered. My apologies!"
Isn't it incredible? This exchange took all of perhaps four
minutes. Can you imagine how long such an exchange would've taken
just a few years ago with air mail letters? Don't even want to
think about it! But here we were able to get the news to someone
in England virtually instantaneousliy. The internet is a marvel.
Let's keep fighting to keep it free! Let's not let the government
start taxing it, and pricing it out of the common peoples' reach.
This is the best thing we've had going in ages.
Another small problem that we've been running into lately that we
think is rather silly; we are getting a lot of non delivery
notices with no email addresses on them, no way of knowing who we
are sending them to! Because many newspapers use the same servers.
This is really perplexing as we hate to keep sending messages to
useless addresses! We have only started receiving such notices
lately, and wondered why servers have changed their policy. And
another little problem. We received a request the other day from
a newspaper editor asking us to remove him from our mailing list,
and all the email showed was the word Editor. As we have dozens
of emails beginning with editor, we had to email back to the
person, asking them for their full address, which we promptly
removed from our mailing list and simultaneously had the person's
name removed from The Book Of Life in The Kingdom Of God. We are
running into this problem again and again. People ask to be
removed from our list and send no address and then seem rather
surprised that we can't identify them. Some of them seem to think
they're the only publications on the internet!
Came across an English newspaper that had a resident psychic who
answered peoples' questions about the Afterlife. Have been trying
to get that type of thing going here in The United States for
years without success. Maybe I ought to start telling foolish
lies that people want to hear, instead of the truth. Might make a
little bit of money that way.