Generally speaking I am a positive person; I try to see two sides to a story before making judgement. But now, in this vastly changing digital age, I have encountered something that is beyond a joke.

Email is supposed to make communication faster. A message can be sent from one continent to another within minutes, possibly in seconds. Absolutely great though I did find when I was working in an office environment that it made people lazy. They preferred to send an email rather than walk to see the person concerned face to face!

But currently there is a huge problem. Let's forget spamming, bad attachments and all the silly emails we receive these days, for I believe there is something that is quickly becoming more and more serious. It is what is being called auto-pilot; you can raise money on auto-pilot, you can do this etc., etc. Use an auto-responder if selling something, for building your list is much easier this way and if you don't build lists you won't make any money, so they say.

Sounds very good and feasible. But the whole concept is on auto-pilot to the extent that if it was an aeroplane it would not be able to land. It would run out of fuel and then come crashing down; I am wondering if eventually this might happen to many of the sites now operating in this way. Or, has it already happened in some instances and these people are possibly raking in cash (on auto-pilot) but have moved on to better things?

I receive emails from some sites in this automatic mode. How do I know? Because I have tried every which-way to contact them with a question. There is absolutely no response whatsoever. The messages are not returned to me as undeliverable nor does it say, "do not reply" or "no reply". It is like talking to a brick wall or, in this case, communicating with cyberspace and it cannot talk back. When I saw blatant abuse on a traffic exchange, I sent two emails reporting the issue; despite an auto-message that they would get back to me, I have not heard a thing. This is now over two months ago.

I feel deeply concerned; more and more of us are using the Internet yet true communication has gone. Why then should we believe anything we see or hear? So often we see the question, "Is it a scam?" No wonder this is asked; I believe the very same people, who promoted what were once great ideas, are causing their own downfall by laziness. They have not realised or do not wish to realise that in the end people will ignore their splash pages and all the hype. They have only themselves to blame.
 

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