Hi Lars,
In a message dated 2010.07.22 12:40 -0500, Lars Nooden wrote:
...Mail lists are one place where return receipts should *NEVER* be used.
James, maybe he's stupid, maybe he's just trolling, maybe he's
collecting business intelligence for one of our competitors. But you
are right, the using of Message Disposition Notification should never be
used on mailing lists.
Continued abuse, either accidental or intentional, can be prevented by
pruning that header from the message before it goes out to all subscribers:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=113372
It's a machine's job and, for good quality mailing list software, very
quick to implement.
You are right - and thanks for filing the issue - but that last
condition ("good quality mailing list software") may be the catch:
Months ago, in discussion about another mailing list problem, Paul said
that the list manager software is really beyond community control - but
that IAC change is on the way, which should address many of these
problems. In the meantime, one might hope that courtesy would prevail.
The notification appears to be a holdover from MS Exchange / Outlook
combinations which cause large volumes of messages to be lost without
even an error message.
Interesting! Could you provide a little more detail, or a link?
Thanks,
John
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