(...) If you find messages not being answered, you can always set the "notify when delivered" and/or "notify when read" flag on the email. ROSCO (23 years ago, 9-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
(...) which would only work if the reciever end is set up to reply to those - which most mail servers do not... I guess the only real way to be sure it hasn't been lost (somewhere in the folders of mail) is to ping (politely) after a reasonable (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)