Dragoness
I will agree with that.

Dragoness...ditto

I think it's only polite to reply at least once even if it's just to tell them thanx but no thanx.

is what hard?

sorry, back to the time out room for me.

Orange -- my own policy is that everybody gets a reply -- the only exceptions are scammers and spammers and trolls and stalkers. (That sounds like a lot of exceptions but I have only had maybe 5-6 of those in 10 months here.)

What I have noticed is that local people do not reply to my e-mails. I used to occasionally send a welcoming note to new people from my area when I saw them on the site. Not that I have tried this a million times, but the times I DID try, nobody replied, so I said screw them and just stopped doing it.

People who AREN'T local have been pretty good about responding but I rarely have any reason to write anyone first. Probably 95% of the e-mails I get here are from people who read something I wrote in the forums. That, to me, is the best "icebreaker" here. I write stuff in the forums, and then people write to me, and I don't have to write to anybody first and be ignored! Problem solved! (Or circumvented, anyway.)

Lex

Thank u awesome response.I agree with u.

I occasionally send out emails any more.now I do welcome new people if I am in there.

ahhh....bgeorge, you asked a question!!

smoother, yes...by far.

I also don't talk to women much. It helps keep the questions to the bare minimummmmmm...