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From: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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Subject: Re: RSVP (automatic receipts)
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Date: Sat, 29-Oct-83 12:11:48 EDT
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We have had that in one of the local mail systems here for some time.
It's called "Registered Mail", and in essence it is like mail you have
to sign for before getting it from the postman.  It is not secure, though.

This is a reasonable thing to have, a must if people start doing legal
stuff over electronic mail.  It's nice to know the time of receipt but
if people consider that invasion of privacy we could only have the date.

One problem is that you need to have it secure, so that a person can't
read a message without sending back the receipt (I suppose they have the
right to refuse the message).  This means the message must be kept in
a secure place, which can only be done on multi-user systems.

But we will need it.

-- 
	Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ont. (519) 886-7304