It works!
...not that I had any doubts, mind you. I sent myself dozens of messages when I was testing & tweaking the form :)
Thanks to all who sent messages and good wishes: Hal, Viceice, Wena, Andrew (I hope I got the right Andrew! *grin*), Kevin a.k.a. Sakamuyo, Karen B., David Costa, Mephisto, Snoflek, and Cath.
Hal's was the first I received; he wished me good morning -- as he said, "Here in Florida it's morning anyway" -- but, unfortunately, over here it was 11:30pm at night :)
For the information of those who asked (Viceice and The Saint), incoming messages are free. I called up my customer service careline to verify this, because their website takes ages to load and when it finally did, I couldn't find a thing on it! Receiving messages would only cost me if I happened to be out of the country when the message was sent... which is not the case, I do assure you. I'm most definitely in Malaysia, or at least, I was the last time I checked ;)
And, to my "regular blog friend", yes, I can conclusively state that FOUR consecutive "Is this annoying?" messages are annoying!!! Leigh, if it was you, I'm gonna kill you... oh, wait, murder is a sin. Ok, then I'm just gonna torture you...