On 11/29/00 10:46 PM, in article
[EMAIL PROTECTED], "Adam Bailey"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Welch
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On 11/27/00 8:44 PM, in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Chuck
>> Simmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> But you have to put up with people like me. DSN I don't care about.
>>> experience says that a DSN is worthless. MDN and related client based
>>> receipts, I forbid. I assure you that I am not alone. Whether I read a
>>> message or not is my business and the sender can rot for all I care if I
>>> do not see fit to answer myself.
>>
>> But in the corporate world, ther are very few people like you who stay
>> employed long. Email is more relied on than snail mail ever was, and return
>> receipts are about as reliable there....but they still work anyway.
>
> Mozilla is not a corporate lan mail product.
Well, we *know* that...it's not even close, and it's barely a home one. But
that's not the point.
>
> Return receipts are more reliable in closed systems where everyone is
> using the same mail server farm and the same client using (supposedly)
> secure machines.
True
>
> The same circumstances do not exist on the open Internet dealing with
> home users. Receipts don't work, and having them available serves to
> confuse people and exasperate circumstances.
But you have home users who have to communicate with work. So they need this
as an option. Don't make it a standard feature, but a checkbox in an obscure
server advanced config panel. That way, the user can set it up to only work
with the mail servers they need it to work with. (this is one of the nice
things about multiple accounts after all.)
john
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