On Aug 15, 2006, at 9:42 PM, Bill Holt wrote: > I understand your disapproval of this when it's misused, but aren't > there innocent uses as well? When I send a letter through the > USPO, certified with return receipt requested, am I spying? I > don't think so ... only making sure "it" got there.
But, the snail mail recipient can look at the envelope and see how it was sent. Indeed, in many such cases the post office collects a signature. In the MSGTAG case, it's done without the recipient's knowledge and it seems to me there's a deliberate attempt to hide the fact the sender was notified. In fact, with some of these programs, the sender is notified every time the email is opened. Maybe I'm being overly sensitive, but I don't like my privacy to be violated even in such small ways. It seems like every time we turn around there's someone trying to glean one more little bit of information about what we're doing. We're poised on the lip of some sort of slippery slope and I don't want to see what's at the bottom. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2452 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060815/f3334290/attachment.bin
