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

[John Summerfield]

On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Bret Busby wrote:

> 
> I have just been able to download my emails, after some days without the
> ability.
> 
> What is the problem with the receipting?

It's useless. Lack of receipt means nothing. Receipt of receipt means
little.

It wastes bandwidth and time. Almost as stupid as sending messages in
duplicate: text plus html.

I've looked at the information content of some html documents: strip off
all the html tags and you save 90%.


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