Do you say Thank You?

For some reason curtesy seems to have disappeared on the internet in general. I can understand why often an answered question in the forum receives no thanks :-), however, like Tvad, I remain baffled why at least half of the E-Mail inquiries I respond to get no expression of gratitude. Frankly I consider it rude to ask for and receive help and to not acknowledge it with a simple thanks.

What I think may be going on that differentiates the 'thanks' responses from the 'no thanks' responses, is that the requester has e-mailed a host of people with similar equipment etc to collect opinions, just as you would in the forum, assuming that he might get more candid responses than the PC responses one gets in the forum because of censorship. Actually not a dumb thing to do. But having received a lot of responses is just too lazy to thank everyone. Just the ones he thinks can give him further help get acknowledgement in the e-mail in which he asked a refined question.

I've become much more discriminate in offering help to folks with generic inquiries. :-(

Dweller's comment about a 'change in psycology' is interesting. Have you ever noticed a tone to some e-mails that might be no different than those in an e-mail to an internet source, such as Ask Jeeves? Question asked, answer expected, no personal transaction whatsoever including an expression of thanks. Maybe I'm just getting sensitive to being seen as a source, not a person. Doesn't happen that often, but it does. With me at least.