On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 09:20:38PM -0500, Ian Ward wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]>wrote:
> > the lawyer took it one step further, asking whether there was a way
> > to absolutely *guarantee* that someone you emailed had read that
> > email. i'm not a mail protocol expert but i thought about it briefly,
> > then said i didn't think so, and used my mail setup as an example.
>
> People commonly call a shared exchange server "email", and I believe with
> exchange and a bunch of microsoft email clients you can tell when an email
> has been displayed.
>
> But even then, I don't know how this could ever be the same as saying that
> a person actually *read* the email.
Or whether it was an anti-spam or virus scanner that actually did, or
even a spook.
I'd say that most marketing types and lawyers don't understand the
technology enough to be so certain, particularly if technical folks
don't.
> Ian
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