[plug] Return Receipt on List (was M$ wants you to pay & Mac to go OSS)

[Justin]

>What is the problem with the receipting?
Hey Bret
the only problem with receipting (well i suppose there maybe more than one,
but this is one that effects me;)
is that if you dont have Outlook or something similar that replies to
receipts automatically.. something like Eudora suppose.. then you have to
answer a "Send receipt now/later/never" for every email that asks for it...
i dont mind doing that most of the time.. but it can get a little
anoying... and if everyone replied you would recieve a large amount of
email <EG>

Justin
>
>I use the receipting as a default, as the nature of some of the emails that
>I send to places apart from the mailing list, warrants receipting. It shows
>that people have received the emails, and, where provided, when the emails
>are received, and when the recipient displays the emails. That gives me
>recourse, when the recipients neither acknowledge, nor respond to, highly
>important emails.
>
>I have, in the course of sending emails, sent emails to various types of
>mail servers, including Microsoft, UNIX, and Linux, and have had no
>complaints, apart from the one below, and the previous one that I received,
>to which you refer. I was going to query the previous one, but, in the
>download of about three hundred emails from the PLUG mailing list alone, at
>one time, parsing them manually, and responding, takes a while.
>
>I understood that Linux is supposed to be more resilient than other
>operating systems, so I am concerned that the receipting appears to cause a
>problem only on this mailing list.
>
>I subscribe to a number of mailing lists, with the others being unrelated to
>Linux, and have had no reported problems with anyone else.
>
>Thus, I ask for an explanation.
>
>I have turned off the receipting manually, for this email, but am concerned
>that this mailing list is so delicate.
>
>A response would be appreciated.
>
>Bret Busby
>____________________________
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-plug at linux.org.au [mailto:owner-plug at linux.org.au]On Behalf
>Of Christian
>Sent: 19 March 1999 16:25
>To: plug at linux.org.au
>Subject: [plug] Return Receipt on List (was M$ wants you to pay & Mac to
>go OSS)
>
>
>Can people posting to the mailing list please refrain from having
>read/return receipt on?  I'm specifically referring to Bret Busby who I
>think was asked before and still hasn't done it yet.  I think the
>problem, Bret, is the email client you're using - Microsoft Outlook
>tends to do stupid things with regard to these receipts.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Christian.
>
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>I'm not trying to give users what they want, I'm trying to give them
>freedom, which they can then accept or reject. If people don't want
>freedom, they may be out of luck with me, but I won't allow them to
>define for me what is right, what is worth spending my life for.
>                                                    - Richard Stallman
>