My prediction is that in about a month, your friend will send you a URL that leads to a gushing Web page full of photos of the new arrival. Dear Cybergentleman, Some people I know save every piece of e-mail they get and file all the messages into dozens of folders. I'm more of a neat freak and like to delete as much as possible. Sincerely, Fastidious in Fargo Dear Fastidious, Of course you should save all your e-mails. The whole idea is to fling them back in people's faces when they change their minds, break their promises, or pretend they didn't say something that they did actually say.
Humans have many frailties.
You know, the spooky kind, saying that if I don't keep the chain going, I'll basically die. This seems very unprofessional to me. Dear Dismayed, Don't get me started on chain letters. The offending coworkers should be threatened with termination. And to be honest, if I ran the zoo, there would be a special prison for people who send chain letters, and in the prison, the prisoners would be forced to send chain letters to each other, and they'd all have to handwrite responses to one another's chain letters every day, and as the letters piled up, they'd have to put them in big sacks and tote them on 10-mile forced marches to a spot where they'd dump them before starting all over again.