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

[Bill Cullen]

Really the issue of receipts should depend on your client. My client
in this case (Netscape messenger) gives me the option. Other email
clients may not support receipts at all.

Anyway, I always answer yes whenever someone sends a receipted
message to a mailing list. I figure that after they've received a
few hundred receipts they will soon get the message and turn
receipting off. I think it's bad netiquette (and impolite - your
saying that you don't trust the recipient) to send receipted
messages to a mailing list anyway.

So if you don't like receiving messages asking for receipts just
make sure you return the receipt.

Bill.

Justin wrote:
> 
> >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.
> >
> >--
> >========================================================================
> >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
> >


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