# Why wasn't I e-mailed? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 12, 2001, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wasnt-i-e-mailed/75905 "2001-08-12T14:33:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wasnt-i-e-mailed/75905/21 "2001-08-14T00:32:05Z")
I didn’t get one but then they probably think that I live here so what’s the use? ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wasnt-i-e-mailed/75905/22 "2001-08-14T01:43:28Z")
Which reminds me, handy: the rent’s due. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wasnt-i-e-mailed/75905/23 "2001-08-14T17:32:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mblackwell \* > \*\*I didn’t get an email. My address is correct and I have email notices turned on. \*\* Same here, though I use an online email service (iName), seeing as how I don’t actually _own_ a computer. ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wasnt-i-e-mailed/75905/24 "2001-08-14T22:31:13Z")
I get the impression this is the first time a membership-wide mailing has been attempted since the change from UBB to vB. I don’t know whether that has anything to do with e-mail–I admit I’m a computer dunce, so don’t laugh at me–but if so maybe it’s just a glitch nobody uncovered before because it was never used. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wasnt-i-e-mailed/75905/25 "2001-08-15T18:44:48Z")
This is, indeed, the first mass-mailing since the Great Change. We’ve only ever used the feature once before, for essentially the same reason (when we were cracked in February 2000), and that was under UBB. The Friday sneak-preview mailings are a completely different animal; they don’t even come directly from us, but are outsourced to Joke-a-day. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wasnt-i-e-mailed/75905/26 "2001-08-15T23:50:44Z")
FWIW, just got back from vacation and I don’t see an official e-mail in my InBox, either. But I promise not to take it personally… [_makes mental note to be sure to put five dollars of Monopoly money in Little Ed’s envelope next Christmas_] ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wasnt-i-e-mailed/75905/27 "2001-08-16T14:23:28Z")
E-mail? I’m waiting in my telegram from Cecil himself hand-delivered by Gaudere! [sub] what do you mean I don’t deserve it? [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wasnt-i-e-mailed/75905/28 "2001-08-16T14:31:24Z")
You can have the mail when you’ve finished your lime chutney young man. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wasnt-i-e-mailed/75905/29 "2001-08-17T19:06:17Z")
I know why we didn’t get our e-mails: It’s because we haven’t paid our dues. It’s $25 a year, right? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wasnt-i-e-mailed/75905.md?page=1)