On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:58:34PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | >This has never happened to me because I don't use microsquish products | >:-). What that is is called a "read receipt". It is supposed to be a | >feature, but most software doesn't support them. You can tell because | > 1) the subject has "Read:" or "Not read:" prepended | > 2) the Content-Type: is as shown | > 3) the mailer is Outlook | > | | Mozilla supports it. I have it set to ask me if someone requests one | and for the most part I say no. I do remember seeing the checkboxes for it in the GUI when I used Netscape 4.x for mail (before I found linux, btw). | Every so often a post to this list pops up one of those requests and | I can't help thinking to myself: "What if everyone actually approved | the request? The sender would get what would amount to a DoS with | several thousand e-mails in the space of several hours..." The ones I've noticed are the asian spam, which are then followed by a nice flood (on-list!) of "Read:" (and a few "Not read:") responses. That's what prompted my exim-based rejection of such crap. -D -- A)bort, R)etry, D)o it right this time http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
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