E-mail and Replies

Time for a small rant about e-mail. This is a pet peeve both my husband and I have. Over the past few months, we've sent several important e-mails either answering ads for jobs or looking to hire someone for a job we have. In more than a few cases, we received no answer back, not even an acknowledgment that they received the missive, although in at least one case, I know the person did as I included return notification. We followed up with other e-mails, asking for assurances our original ones were received. In most cases, we got that assurance - and nothing more.

My peeve? People who ask you to contact them through e-mail and do not reply. Even a "e-mail received" would be enough to let us know that it got there. It can be set up to automatically respond so you don't even have to do anything, but common courtesy would be to allow the sender to know you got the thing.

My husband used to work with a man who refused to answer any e-mails. He had thousands of them stored on his computer - he didn't delete them - he just refused to answer them. And he was a supervisor.

So, what do you do when you've sent an e-mail asking for a response, and the responder doesn't? Do you follow up with more e-mail? Call? (If you can find a number) Send a snail mail (if you can find an address)? Or just forget about it and figure they either didn't want the job, or you. How do you handle this?
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