Plus, preferential peons proclaim a penchant for pining opinions as opposed to performing preferred pastoral purposes.
Here, “across” is used and seems natural:
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Let’s say you want to send an email across the internet to 20 people. It’s better to include as many addresses as possible in the BCC field.
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I might be coaching a side next year on Saturday’s in Penrith, I just have to see if I can do that and coach Chester Hill (who are Sunday next year) at the same time. I’ve been to two weeks of the semi-finals this year. Yeah I’ll write down the email now and send an email across. I might be there for the Under 15’s, not sure yet.
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Your ‘across the internet’ quotes strike me as different from ‘across to me’.
Did you manage to find any examples of actual usage of the construction in the original question (i.e. Did you manage to dig up any examples of ‘Send the email across to me’)?
Your third quote was the closest. Was that the only one you found?
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How so?
“Send the email across to me” could mean “across the Internet” or “across cyberspace” or “across town”. We can’t know exactly what the speaker is thinking, can we?
Send an email across the internet to + noun phrase
20 people
Yeah I’ll write down the email now and send an email across <<to you/them, etc.>> (Ellipted pronoun-)
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And:
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Ian G, I will send my email across to you and if I manage to make the meet-up in time I will wear a distinctive T-shirt as well! Looking forward to it! ;D
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So what do we put you down as, M?
MrP
Sorry?
Skrej’s preference: over
Alan’s preference: none stated – in his opinion, both over and across are OK
Molly’s initial opinion: both over and across are fine
Molly’s mid-thread opinion: over is apparently more commonly used
Molly’s current preference: none whatsoever?
Amy’s preference: over
MrP’s preference: over (unless some kind of “conscious oddity” is involved)
Does that summary meet with your satisfaction, M?
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Indeed, and “in her opinion, both over and across are OK”
So, how about the links, above? OK?
And you talk about your preference, Amy, but above it seems you doubt that “across” can be used.
I don’t doubt that it can be used, Molly. Those are your words.
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Indeed they are. Two of them were “it seems”.
Here’s another Brit example:
1st time, 31st May. Guy in disconnections said he would send an email across to the outbound promotions team who don’t accept incoming calls. He said I should receive a call the next day.
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Does it sound natural?
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Did you fail to notice my stated preference?
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Nope. Did you fail to notice my question about this “Your ‘across the internet’ quotes strike me as different from ‘across to me’.”?
Yes.
Does the following sound natural to you?
“Send the email across the Internet to me.”
If that strikes you as an everyday sentence, by all means, use it to your heart’s content if you insist. That would not be a wording I’d prefer or that I would use unless I wanted to sound odd for some reason.
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Oh I wouldn’t use it to my heart’s content. I’d probably use it if I wanted to be precise about email carriers. An email can also be sent across an intranet, an extranet, a device…
"An e-mail message is created using SMTP, as described on the previous page. As with all information sent across the Internet, the message is broken up by the Internet’s TCP protocol into IP packets. The address is examined by the intranet’s mail transfer agent. If the address is found on another network, the mail transfer agent will send the mail across the intranet via routers to the mail transfer agent on the receiving network.
Before the mail can be sent out across the Internet, it first might have to pass through an intranet firewall-a computer that shields the intranet so that intruders cannot break into the network. The firewall keeps track of messages and data going into and out of the intranet. It keeps a record of traffic so that any security breaches can be tracked down.
The message leaves the intranet and is sent to an Internet router. The router examines the address and determines where the message should be sent, and then sends the message on the way."
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The idea of travelling comes to mind, there.
“How do you get across London?”, for example. Stepping stones, barriers, etc.
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Nor would I expect you to, Amy. We are, I thought, simply trying to find the logic behind the use of “across” in the above contexts.
Sorry for the intruding but I feel, IMHO, that the logic behind “across” and “over” would be, the former is more or less laid emphasis on the sense of transverse while the latter on from stem to stern in the above contexts. So I would agree that to Internet, telephone, etc., with or without wire, “over” or “through” applies much better than “across”, which applies more natural to a street, a river, etc.
Some questions don’t have answers, do they? 
I’ll go with the following sentence instead.
Send it over wire across the Internet through an optimized path via highly efficient routers