Tracing Paper

Isn’t technology brilliant?  Email - much better than paper letters and the postal service.  My System Administrator occasionally sends me little notes.  ‘Out of storage space’ - apparently.  And how does the clever thing alert me to the fact that it is now utterly inoperable?  By letting me continue oblivious, that’s how.  And just to make me feel better, it adds little ‘Replied’ flags next to the original messages while throwing the actual remarks into oblivion - destroying them without a trace.