On Thu, Dec 02, 2004, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote about "Re: Sendmail issue":
> 
> Hi Israel,
> 
> First thing first - your email program is sending along a header with 
> your message that asks other people mailing programs to send you an 
> email when they have read the messages you send.

This is not his fault it is the fault of the idiot who invented email
readers that actually answer to such Disposition-Notification-To.
I wouldn't want my email program to tell someone when I read my mail,
regardless or not if it is a mailing list...

For the same reason, you also need to watch out for HTML mail containing
external embedded objects, such as external images, CSS, or whatever.
This can be used (and often are used, by spammers) to know when you eventually
read this mail.

> This is not only plain rude and envasion of privacy, it's also right out 
> stupid when you send emails to mailing lists, such as Linux-il.

I wonder why the mailing list software passes on such headers...


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