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Article #206Re: Return-Receipt-To & forwarding...
From: Neil Rickert
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:21
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:21
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In article <BzzGC8.4Gr@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes: > >The AT&T packages that are more or less "on-line" and able to send at any >time generate the receipt when the message is displayed on the screen >(that is, the user selects "read"). The dial-up versions (access-plus >and the windows and mac equivalents) generate the receipts as the messages >are transferred out to the remote machine since they will be off-line >as they are read. The wording of the receipt is different to indicate >the condition. This illustrates why I object to read receipts. These so-call "read receipts" actually certify that the mail has not yet been read, but certain steps have been taken which normally precede the mail reading. There ain't no such thing as an automatic read receipt, and there won't be until we solve some problems in AI and in ESP (mindreading, for example).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!pavo.csi.cam.ac.uk!doc.ic.ac.uk!agate!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers,comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Return-Receipt-To & forwarding... Message-ID: <1992Dec30.192126.7969@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 30 Dec 92 19:21:26 GMT References: <19921225.001@erik.naggum.no> <sdorner-271292095054@0.0.0.0> <BzzGC8.4Gr@chinet.chi.il.us> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 17