Harold Fuchs wrote: > On Wednesday, February 21, 2007 3:05 AM [GMT+1=CET], > James Mckenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> James: >> >> Brilliant, simply brilliant! >> >> James McKenzie > <snip> > >>> Perhaps the solution is for everyone on the list to send the receipt. >>> They'd soon realize it's a bad idea. ;-) >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > <snip> > > Not really. > > I'm fairly sure most newbies who e-mail this list don't realise their > message is going to hundreds of individual people (I certainly didn't > when I started). Instead I believe they think their message is going > to a single Help Desk. Therefore I believe they'd be mightily p****d > off if they got hundreds of unexpected receipts. It would just give us > and OpenOffice a reputation for rudeness and ill-breeding. We'd be > doing it deliberately whereas they only did it through misunderstanding. >
Regardless, people should realize that requesting return receipts should be the exception, not the rule. There are many, who request receipts for every email they send. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
