No, I’m not plugging RSVP: Rare Songs, Very Personal, Nancy Wilson’s last grammy-winning recording. I’m referring to the original meaning: Respondez S’il Vous Plait. “No news is good news” used to be true, but that has changed. The number of emails I send, and phone messages that I leave, that go unanswered grows exponentially each day. I used to think it was just plain rude (not to mention discourteous and bad for business) to not answer messages. Part of me still feels that way. I answer every communication I receive, even if it is to just to say “no” or “I don’t know” or “I’ll get back to you soon.” But I have to admit that doing so is taking up more and more of my time, leaving me less and less able to accomplish the myriad tasks on my to-do list. I know that I am not alone in this. I notice that even my own friends and business associates are hard pressed to keep up and respond in a timely fashion, if at all. But it just goes against my grain to blow someone off by not responding at all. I remain determined to respond, even if it take me a little longer than it used to. And if it’s blog-mail, I always reserve the right to repond publically in a DevraDoWrite “I’ve Got Mail” post.