Yes! Again, for certain work things or informational stuff--a quick reply is confirmation that you got the email and it answered at least most of your questions, the attachment opened correctly, etc..
We had a student worker leave our office to go elsewhere for a summer internship, with the promise to return in the fall. Fall comes, and there's no sign of this guy. Personally I would have poked him with an email right away, but my boss is very non-confrontational and to be honest, we were glad if he DIDN'T return because of some issues we'd had with him, so we didn't reach out to him ourselves. Another month goes by and suddenly this guy saunters into our office, like everything is perfectly normal. My boss and I are like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, we thought you didn't work here anymore!" And he's like, "I sent you an email saying I'd be back on this date." And we were like, "Did anyone reply to that email?" He says no. I'm like, "Well, I don't know what happened, but one of us would have definitely replied to an email like that." He investigated and found out he'd saved the email as a draft, instead of sending it. (Of course if we had emailed him the first day he didn't show up as expected, this all would have come out sooner!)
We have a policy that we always reply to emails like, "I'll be out sick today," or whatever--so try to check back later and see if someone replied, and if they didn't, try to contact us again. Of course if you are super-ill don't strain yourself, but so many times an email will go ONLY to someone who isn't working that day, or they get the phone number wrong and leave a voicemail on some unrelated account, or things like that. All we can do is say, "We WILL reply if we hear from you, so if we don't reply, we didn't get the message."
But, I have definitely learned, from the old forum, that back-and-forths are unnecessary and annoying--like the first "Thanks!" is good in my opinion, but I just stop there, and I don't reply, "No problem!" and so on.
I think with stuff like email, both people have to work a little harder to be clear communicators. If I send someone info and I don't hear back, I may need to follow up to see if they got it. And if they did get it, it would be better for them to indicate that to me right away--or if they didn't get it by an expected date, they need to reach out and let me know that. If something critical is missed, then you get this blaming going back and forth--"You should have told me you didn't get it!" "Well, you should have followed up to see if I got it!"