Recently I ran into an issue where some emails at another pubnix sent
to me actually did not come in. They were about job interviews, so I
was a bit miffed. That's important stuff... then again, anyone who has
used that particular pubnix for a while would also tell you it's not
100% reliable and there will be outages and issues that crop up,
especially with updates.

My confusion, as was the senders', was that they had reached me
before. My guess is they exceeded the retry limit threshold, but it
still doesn't make sense why previous emails to which I replied got
through.

I actually thought about giving them an "email address" for my phone,
essentially what SMS texting is. For simplicity's sake, I'll call all
primarily-text-based communication via mobile phone as SMS, although I
know MMS and RCS are different. But I decided against that because a)
that's just weird and b) most SMS clients aren't designed to read
email, even if they're virtually the same thing. I mean I've done this
before and while it technically works, it's just not ideal. Email
should have a physical keyboard and most phones don't have those. Also
with lengthy messages, it can be downright interminable to try and
read it through an SMS client. 

All this talk makes me wish for Hangouts to come back with its unified
app to rule them all... Simpler is better. That being said, any and
every pubnix is better than Big G.