You are given a sentence in English. Your job is to translate the English sentence into Italian.

I blogged about those letters and the days when they were necessary, and I posed a kind of crazy promise to the Internet: that if you asked me for a hand-written letter, I would write you one, no questions asked.
Ho scritto un blog su queste lettere e sui giorni in cui erano necessarie e ho fatto una specie di folle promessa su Internet: che se mi aveste chiesto una lettera scritta a mano, ve ne avrei scritta una, senza fare domande.

There's a similar story, I think, for governments.
C'è una storia simile, credo, per i governi.

And the fact is that they kept us honest.

Show your work and conclude with the exact phrasing "Therefore, the final answer is [answer]." where [answer] is just the final number or expression that solves the problem.
user
Ciò ha preservato la nostra onestà.

