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  1. Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!sdd.hp.com!network.ucsd.edu!qualcom.qualcomm.com!dorner.slip.uiuc.edu!user
  3. From: sdorner@qualcomm.com (Steve Dorner)
  4. Subject: Re: Return-Receipt-To & Mailing lists
  5. Message-ID: <sdorner-291292070904@dorner.slip.uiuc.edu>
  6. Followup-To: comp.mail.headers,comp.mail.misc
  7. Sender: news@qualcomm.com
  8. Nntp-Posting-Host: dorner.slip.uiuc.edu
  9. Organization: Qualcomm, Inc.
  10. References: <19921225.001@erik.naggum.no> <sdorner-271292095054@0.0.0.0> <Bzzt68.G8z@boulder.parcplace.com> <1992Dec29.075730.21796@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>
  11. Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 13:13:49 GMT
  12. Lines: 19
  13.  
  14. In article <1992Dec29.075730.21796@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>,
  15. tmetro@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Thomas Metro) wrote:
  16. > What should happen when crossing a gateway, and there is no equivalent to
  17. > a "Return-Receipt-To:" or "Read-Receipt-To:" on the other side? Should the
  18. > gateway send an appropriate message?
  19.  
  20. That depends.  If the gateway *knows* that the mail is never leaving the
  21. receipt-less system, then perhaps it might.
  22.  
  23.   "Your mail was delivered to Blackholes 'R Us, which does not support
  24. return receipts."
  25.  
  26. However, if there is a significant chance that the mail will emerge from
  27. the other end (via a .forward kind of mechanism or something), then I would
  28. think not.
  29.  
  30. Given my 'druthers, I'd leave this behavior unspecified.
  31. --
  32. Steve Dorner, Qualcomm, Inc.
  33.