Reasons you might not respond to an email

I started this list as a way of working out my frustration over people not responding to emails I sent. Writing out these reasons has helped me to better understand where people are coming from, and I've realized that *gasp* I have even been guilty of some of these!

Reasons you might not respond to an email:

• you skim and ignore anything not life and death, because....
• you have too many emails
• you consider email to be a lower-priority form of communication
• you think emails are like bulletins: info only.
• you are too lazy to develop an opinion.
• you are too lazy to type their opinion.
• you don't care about the topic or event.
• you forget to go back and reply to an email you read the day before.
• you assume that no reply means "No"
• you enjoy the power-trip of holding the sender in suspense
• your computer doesn't work
• you don't have access to email
• you don't check email often enough, so....
• you don't see the email way down in their inbox.
• the event under discussion is past.
• you share an email account, and someone else has already opened the message, so you don't notice it.

Do you have any additions to the list?
Which ones are you guilty of?