In news:[email protected], Gene Young <[email protected]> typed: > On 7/22/2010 10:13 AM, James Knott wrote: >> Bruce Martin wrote: >>> I see this as a case where the borders of "live and let >>> live" have really been set for all of us by the >>> provisions of the internet and the existing software as a >>> whole, not by any smaller group. >> So, you feel it's your right to irritate so many others. >> Mail lists are one place where return receipts should >> *NEVER* be used. > > The simple solution is for everyone to create a simple rule > that deletes, unread and un-answered, all messages with a > return receipt request. Then you need only add the > offender's email to the rule. > Works for me, I don't even see messages from Bruce. If > enough people do this offenders will never receive any > answers and will only be talking to themselves and the > "ether."
IMO it's easier to just ignore them and set to "Never Respond", and forget it. A Read Receipt only means that "someone" at the address has downloaded the mail; it does nothing to make sure the proper person read it, or even bothered with noticing it. The last Return Receipt request I saw came from a spammer that managed to get thru my filters; I have my receipt settings to alert me but let me decide whether to respond. And if it became a nuisance, I'd turn them off completely and never see another one. This is an interesting discussion thread; Unless they were phishing for addresses, it's probably just a newbie or some type of miscreant; neither is worth any time investment, IMO. Is there some sort of issue where some newsreaders don't have the ability to control receipts & reactions to them? I've never heard any client that didn't make it easy to handle. HTH, Twayne` --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
