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The Internet has made recruiting more efficient in many ways. It used to be that you'd have to send your resume to a company by postal mail and wait for it to get routed to the right individual. Now, with e-mail, you're often able to send your resume directly to the decision maker. Overall this is a good thing. The challenge though is that you have competition: it's just as easy for other people to email the same hiring manager or recruiter. Most recruiters use spam filters in an attempt to keep offers for drugs, loans, etc. out of their inbox. Unfortunately, many spam filters make mistakes and can classify a legitimate resume you send to a recruiter as a spam message. In addition, even if your resume is not marked as spam, you are still probably competing for the recruiter's attention with maybe a hundred or more other resumes the recruiter received that day.