Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (119 mails)

[Sylvester Lykkehus <zly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

J Sloan wrote:
> Andy wrote:
>   
> >  On Friday 06 October 2006 14:27, Mike McMullin wrote:
> >     
> > > On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 20:28 -0700, J Sloan wrote:
> > >       
> > > > I think I'm going to have to blacklist any messages from Livio Cipriano.
> > > > I just can't take any more of those annoying delivery confirmation popups
> > > > that occur for each and every one of his messages to the list.
> > > >         
> > >   I'm not getting any of those here.
> > >
> > >   Mike
> > >       
> > Email clients usually have a setting for this - always confirm, never confirm, 
> > or ask. I have mine set to ask and put up with the odd popup, though I think 
> > asking for confirmation from everyone on a mailing list is a bit cheeky.
> >     
>
> I don't want to turn off receipt confirmation completely, since I want to
> acknowledge receipt if appropriate. I don't want to automatically send a
> receipt confirmation to just any unknown sender either, so I leave it set to
> the default of "ask", so that I know who's requesting a return receipt, and
> can acknowledge it if I so choose.
>
> It just gets really old, reading through the list and keep getting the popup
> every I hit a message from this one sender. If nothing else, netiquette would
> seem to discourage that sort of email confirmation harvesting.
>
> Joe
>
>   
I completely agree with you.
Say, if I hit the "confirm" button, he will get a notice right ?
If all browsing through the list confirmed these messages, perhaps he 
will stop asking for them to do so :-)

//Sylvester