On 08/04/12 00:46, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 07 April 2012 15:21:44 Indulekha wrote: >> In linux.debian.user, Richard <rich...@g8jvm.com> wrote: >>> The other thing Mika, apart from that huge chunk of signature, why on >>> earth ask for a return receipt. > >> It does tend to announce to the recipient that the sender has >> a wildly exaggerated sense of self-importance, which I suppose >> could be construed as useful. :) > > I am very wary of requests for return receipts: it is/would be a very good > way for a bot to identify which of the email addresses it had generated were > valid. I never (I hope!) send them. > > Lisi > > > Sound logic.
I use them occasionally for business - it's sometimes useful to know who reads mail, when, and whether it's read or deleted without reading. And I've made the mistake of accidentally sending a post to a list with a request for a return receipt. I *still* get receipts from that error - educational as to how often posts are republished, but almost as annoying for me as it is for the unintended recipients. Kind regards -- Iceweasel/Firefox/Chrome/Chromium/Iceape/IE extensions for finding answers to questions about Debian:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/Scott_Ferguson/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f80dacb.6040...@gmail.com
