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Re: Return-Receipt-To & forwarding...

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From: David Collier-Brown
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 17:58
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john@chance.gts.org (John R MacMillan) writes:
|Actually, finger has the same problem as many existing read receipts,
|and return receipts: incorrect user expectation.

|Here Dave, a knowledgeable computer professional, arrives at a result
|that is simply not true, because fingerd does not (and can not) know
|if I have read my mail.

  Specify, please.

--dave
-- 
David Collier-Brown,  | davecb@CCS.YorkU.CA | lethe!dave
72 Abitibi Ave.,      | 
Willowdale, Ontario,  | York Postmaster and
CANADA. 416-223-8968  | occasional sendfail(8) consultant.
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From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
Subject: Re: Return-Receipt-To & forwarding...
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