If it had a pref for 'never respond automatically, always ask if I should', I'd be okay with it. But yeah, otherwise it's just a spammer's dream come true.
Never could understand the point of this feature for email...
In 'ye old days' return receipt was used to show something was 'correctly delivered' to an address that is was sent to (and someone signed for it as proof) - it was never any indication that the party to which the letter was addressed actually read (or even got) the letter. E-mail (for the most part) 'just works' in so far as your letter is either correctly delivered (and you hear nothing) **or** you get a very poorly worded and often cryptic 'bounce message' from some dude named postmaster.
As far as my computer INFORMING someone as to WHEN and/or IF their email was 'opened' - I'd never stand for it - it's nobodies business and people should not assume they have the right or need to know such things.
Finally even if you did get such a response back as to when someone opened your mail it doesn't mean the person you addresses it to opened it (or read it)... It could have been anyone in that house opening it by mistake, a kid, wife or even a cat walking across the keyboard.
All in all I'd never tolerate it - like I said before, what I read an when I read it is my business and nobody else's.
Only exception to this rule could be for WORK email... In that case I could see it being put to use... I wouldn't like it but you'd have little to say about it.
I do not want senders (spammers in particular) to know if I read their mail or not. Are you serious?
Return receipt is actually a technique used my many NOT to get caught by spam filters. For one, when you request a return receipt, your email must therefore be valid/trackable, most of which spammer's email addresses are not. Return receipt has a lot of practicle business uses so you know your message was NOT picked up by Spam filters and actually delivered and read. Also, a good email program would notify the user and ask for confirmation before the return receipt was sent back to the requester.
I completely agree with DaveGee here. I really can't stand that function and I don't want that function to EVER appear in Apple's Mail app. It is implemented in MS's Outlook program - where it only works more or less correctly when using the very expensive Exchange server. It's nobody's business when I read my e-mail (or where, by that way), and even in a business environment, everybody has a telephone to ask whether the important e-mail was received. Anything else is not important and can - and must - wait.
Most of the people nowadays mis-use e-mail as a substitute for calling someone or walking by to the desk twenty feet away (which would be good excercise for your back and body in general) and actually talk to someone, also keeping some social contacts alive - instead of staring at the computer screen all day... E-mail is not an instant messenger application and therefore should not be used that way!
I completely agree with DaveGee here. I really can't stand that function and I don't want that function to EVER appear in Apple's Mail app. It is implemented in MS's Outlook program - where it only works more or less correctly when using the very expensive Exchange server. It's nobody's business when I read my e-mail (or where, by that way), and even in a business environment, everybody has a telephone to ask whether the important e-mail was received. Anything else is not important and can - and must - wait.
Most of the people nowadays mis-use e-mail as a substitute for calling someone or walking by to the desk twenty feet away (which would be good excercise for your back and body in general) and actually talk to someone, also keeping some social contacts alive - instead of staring at the computer screen all day... E-mail is not an instant messenger application and therefore should not be used that way!
The time that you would use a return receipt is when you don't KNOW the person you are sending an email and don't have access to another contact method.
If they added that feature I would just disable it, so no biggie for me. I don't want it asking me every time I read a message if I want it to send a return receipt, either. I remember Eudora used to (and may still) have it and I always set it to off. Maybe after a few months of never getting a return receipt the senders will stop asking for one. I don't want them to know that I read the message and sit there waiting for me to reply.
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I do not want senders (spammers in particular) to know if I read their mail or not. Are you serious?
If it had a pref for 'never respond automatically, always ask if I should', I'd be okay with it. But yeah, otherwise it's just a spammer's dream come true.
In 'ye old days' return receipt was used to show something was 'correctly delivered' to an address that is was sent to (and someone signed for it as proof) - it was never any indication that the party to which the letter was addressed actually read (or even got) the letter. E-mail (for the most part) 'just works' in so far as your letter is either correctly delivered (and you hear nothing) **or** you get a very poorly worded and often cryptic 'bounce message' from some dude named postmaster.
As far as my computer INFORMING someone as to WHEN and/or IF their email was 'opened' - I'd never stand for it - it's nobodies business and people should not assume they have the right or need to know such things.
Finally even if you did get such a response back as to when someone opened your mail it doesn't mean the person you addresses it to opened it (or read it)... It could have been anyone in that house opening it by mistake, a kid, wife or even a cat walking across the keyboard.
All in all I'd never tolerate it - like I said before, what I read an when I read it is my business and nobody else's.
Only exception to this rule could be for WORK email... In that case I could see it being put to use... I wouldn't like it but you'd have little to say about it.
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I thought that died about 10 years ago.
I do not want senders (spammers in particular) to know if I read their mail or not. Are you serious?
Return receipt is actually a technique used my many NOT to get caught by spam filters. For one, when you request a return receipt, your email must therefore be valid/trackable, most of which spammer's email addresses are not. Return receipt has a lot of practicle business uses so you know your message was NOT picked up by Spam filters and actually delivered and read. Also, a good email program would notify the user and ask for confirmation before the return receipt was sent back to the requester.
Most of the people nowadays mis-use e-mail as a substitute for calling someone or walking by to the desk twenty feet away (which would be good excercise for your back and body in general) and actually talk to someone, also keeping some social contacts alive - instead of staring at the computer screen all day... E-mail is not an instant messenger application and therefore should not be used that way!
I completely agree with DaveGee here. I really can't stand that function and I don't want that function to EVER appear in Apple's Mail app. It is implemented in MS's Outlook program - where it only works more or less correctly when using the very expensive Exchange server. It's nobody's business when I read my e-mail (or where, by that way), and even in a business environment, everybody has a telephone to ask whether the important e-mail was received. Anything else is not important and can - and must - wait.
Most of the people nowadays mis-use e-mail as a substitute for calling someone or walking by to the desk twenty feet away (which would be good excercise for your back and body in general) and actually talk to someone, also keeping some social contacts alive - instead of staring at the computer screen all day... E-mail is not an instant messenger application and therefore should not be used that way!
The time that you would use a return receipt is when you don't KNOW the person you are sending an email and don't have access to another contact method.