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From: taylor@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Mr Jem Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Read Receipts & Return Receipts in E-mail
Message-ID: <2765@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Date: 10 Apr 89 14:53:55 GMT
References: <11428@s.ms.uky.edu> <513@tiamat.fsc.com>
Reply-To: taylor@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jem Taylor)
Organization: Comp Sci, Glasgow Univ, Scotland
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In article <513@tiamat.fsc.com> jim@tiamat.fsc.com (Jim O'Connor) writes:
>It is probably true that any type of "tell me when/if they read it" feature
>would have to be implemented in the MUA's (perhaps a new feature for Elm 2.3).

I would not use a User Agent which did such a thing without asking me
first, when I read a message tagged with Return-Receipt: ...

Consider the privacy implications before doing this, and compare the
ISO MOTIS operations. I think Delivery Notification is in X400, I think
Read-and-understood Notification is not.

-jem.
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