The next day, Jonathan sent me an e-mail message thanking me for arranging the dinner.

After having sent a telegram to the tsar declaring his loyalty to him, Nickolas II responded with a message thanking him, "and also the group of Ukrainian gathered in Switzerland, for the feelings expressed."

CSTV has not grown large enough to be rated, but Brian Bedol, its president, said he had received several hundred e-mail messages thanking him for showing hockey while the N.H.L. has been dark.

Commercials are aired on television around a message thanking all the "moms".

When an order is placed at his site (www.therocks.org), Mr. Manley sends an e-mail message thanking the customer and then handpicks a tree.

Public-address announcements were made in English and Mandarin for a Rockets game there on Nov. 27, and Yao delivered a videotaped message thanking fans for coming to see him.

The third title in the trilogy and final of the original trilogy released in 2000 and had a post credit scene, which was a message from Insomniac Games, thanking the fans for their loyalty to the series.

A genial bumbler, Buckmaster refused to believe that his operations had gone awry until the Germans, on orders from Hitler, sent taunting messages thanking F Section for the cash and the guns.

Titus obtained the phone numbers of members of the board, and then robo-dialed them back the next morning at 4:30am with his own recorded message, "thanking" them.

A few hours later he posted a message thanking a chef who had given him "years of inspiration" who had announced that he was going to close his restaurant.