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Re: How many users will fall for my Disposition-Notification-To?



On Fri,05.Jun.09, 09:00:21, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> Fellas, what happens when I put a Disposition-Notification-To: me@...
> header at the top of my mail? Yes I know all about the protocol,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_receipt#Message_Disposition_Notifications
> I'm just curious about how many users will "fall" for my
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_bug From what I've seen, about half the
> users' computers I send such a header to send back acknowledgements, and
> the other half don't. When I ask the half that do if they noticed
> anything, they say "noticed what?" I haven't asked the half that don't,

At least the first time, Outlook will ask before sending a "read 
receipt", but the same dialog box also has an "always" checkbox, so if 
you check that receipts will be sent without you knowing.

As far as I can tell, mutt doesn't have any support for this, but I 
think I could make something up using colors and macros ;)

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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