> What is the point of implementing the feature and then have the > default preference to be "Never send a return receipt". On the theory > that most people are lazy and do minimal tinkering of their > preferences, wouldn't it be better to have the default be: "Send > sometimes... Ask me, Ask me, Ask me". There is still no danger of a > return receipt being sent when someone doesn't want it to and doesn't > realize it is being sent, but there is a greater chance of the feature > being 'discovered'?
I don't think that discoverability of features should add to the UI (additional dialog boxes do add to the UI), but I nevertheless agree. Client-side receipts are useless, if the not the majority of users at least *knows* that they are being requested. The Ask dialog box ensures that. I agree also that we should ask first before sending them, by default.
