From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41739 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: hammond@csc.albany.edu (William F. Hammond) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Return Receipts Date: 07 Jan 2002 18:18:32 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <86pu4r5cd4.fsf@jamestown.21stcentury.net> <86pu4q3ilk.fsf@jamestown.21stcentury.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177091 7743 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:11:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:11:31 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 29794 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2002 23:19:11 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 7 Jan 2002 23:19:11 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16Nj2c-0001Uz-00; Mon, 07 Jan 2002 17:18:54 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 07 Jan 2002 17:18:47 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA07153 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:18:37 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 29787 invoked by alias); 7 Jan 2002 23:18:40 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 29782 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2002 23:18:39 -0000 Original-Received: from mail1.csc.albany.edu (HELO smtp.albany.edu) (169.226.1.133) by gnus.org with SMTP; 7 Jan 2002 23:18:39 -0000 Original-Received: from pluto.math.albany.edu (pluto.math.albany.edu [169.226.23.44]) by smtp.albany.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g07NIWq19317; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 18:18:32 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from hammond@localhost) by pluto.math.albany.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g07NIWO19334; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 18:18:32 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41739 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41739 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes in gnu.emacs.gnus: > I think this sounds like a good idea. I've Cc'd this to the ding > mailing list, so we can see whether anybody there has any comments. > (Follow up to the mailing list only, please.) (Hmmm ... If you had set "Followup-To: ding@gnus.org", would that have suppressed followup to the newsgroup?) Doesn't it pose risks if a user inadvertently opens spam? For example, does gnus know what w3 might do, much less what nonsense, as bandied about elsewhere in this discussion, might show up in someone's mailcap? The least of these might be a spammer who queues the user for more spam every time a return-receipt comes in. By the way, in my locale the postal service charges extra money for return receipts. There are indeed extra expenses. It's just not responsible use of the network. Alternatively, it's very easy for a user to wire a keystroke to a boiler-plate acknowledgement by writing a little elisp. So maybe that could be provided for users who want to be able to use a keystroke to honor a return-receipt request. If so, the request needs to be made plain to the user, but, pretty please, no prompt, or, at worst, a user configurable return-receipt-request display-mode like 0=hide, 1=show, 2=prompt. -- Bill