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- From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers,comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: Return-Receipt-To & forwarding...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.192126.7969@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 19:21:26 GMT
- References: <19921225.001@erik.naggum.no> <sdorner-271292095054@0.0.0.0> <BzzGC8.4Gr@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Organization: Northern Illinois University
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- In article <BzzGC8.4Gr@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
- >
- >The AT&T packages that are more or less "on-line" and able to send at any
- >time generate the receipt when the message is displayed on the screen
- >(that is, the user selects "read"). The dial-up versions (access-plus
- >and the windows and mac equivalents) generate the receipts as the messages
- >are transferred out to the remote machine since they will be off-line
- >as they are read. The wording of the receipt is different to indicate
- >the condition.
-
- This illustrates why I object to read receipts. These so-call "read
- receipts" actually certify that the mail has not yet been read, but
- certain steps have been taken which normally precede the mail reading.
-
- There ain't no such thing as an automatic read receipt, and there won't
- be until we solve some problems in AI and in ESP (mindreading, for
- example).
-