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

[Justin]

Hey is there any way for Majordomo to filter/change email headers on the fly?
ie, remove the Return Receipt tag?
maybe this is why Bret isnt getting any bad feedback from other mailing lists?

Just a thought

Justin
At 10:49 PM 19/03/1999 , you wrote:
>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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>  Bill Cullen, ENFP, billc at wantree.com.au, Perth, Western Australia
>               Life's too important to take seriously.
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