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- From: john@chance.gts.org (John R MacMillan)
- Subject: Re: Return-Receipt-To & forwarding...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.180958.22688@chance.gts.org>
- Organization: $HOME
- References: <19921225.001@erik.naggum.no> <sdorner-271292095054@0.0.0.0> <davecb.725771350@yorku.ca>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:09:58 GMT
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- | Well, the historical reason this wasn't necessary/desirable/done is
- |called finger.
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- [...]
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- | I regularly finger people, then look to see when my message was sent.
- |Result? I know if it was read.
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- Actually, finger has the same problem as many existing read receipts,
- and return receipts: incorrect user expectation.
-
- Here Dave, a knowledgeable computer professional, arrives at a result
- that is simply not true, because fingerd does not (and can not) know
- if I have read my mail.
-
- Sure Dave is almost certainly aware of this, but many more naive users
- are not. On _every_ system I've been on that had read receipts
- (including counting finger as a read receipt), I have either gotten
- told off by people who ``knew'' I had read my mail when in fact I had
- not, or who were very confused that their MUA told them I never read
- their mail when in fact I did.
-