Just wanted to say that I found out today that my DS8 was accepted! They emailed last week (Jan 29), but it went to my DH's work email address, so of course he never noticed it. (Obviously, need to change the email contact address!) Glad they send a letter as well!
Congrats!! That happened to me as well. It had gone to my secondary email address where I get a ton of extra stuff, so it got buried in there. My dh eventually did notice. One of the first things I did was to ask them to change the email address.