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. 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..."
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