Reply #16: Just in common courtesy

[China_cat]

I think the answers to all should be yes.

You don't need long, detailed responses:

Thank you for coming in, we'll let you know by ....
We're sorry but the position has been filled. (Possibly a one-liner about needing other qualifications to be considered in the future.)

If you put an email address on your resume, or submit it by email, it isn't that hard to have an autoresponder or a form email saying, 'thank you, we received your submission'. Would probably also save the company some hassle from people trying to find out if the resume ever got there.

It isn't really fair to raise hopes of a job when all you're doing is gathering resumes.