I recently submitted a story
to a large publisher
via email.
I received nothing back.
No autoreply saying it was received.
No human email saying the same.
The process for authors
is to submit stories
and then wait months,
sometimes years
(yes, years)
for a response.
If the email has not been received
then the waiting is for nothing.
So I emailed to confirm
that they received my original email.
They emailed back and said they had.
Yeah, silliness,
especially since an autoreply
could have done the same thing automatically.
If you aren’t going to respond
within a half decent time frame
and your business depends
on the people contacting you,
at the very least
set up an autoreply.