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"Read receipts" are already part of e-mail and supported by every email client I am aware of. There is already a well-supported way to track whether e-mail has
by 3np 5y ago
"Read receipts" are already part of e-mail and supported by every email client I am aware of. There is already a well-supported way to track whether e-mail has been successfully opened or not without using subversive tracking pixels.
The reason businesses don't rely on them is supposedly because "too many users disabled or rejected them during the past decade".
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3798 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3798
- dsr_ 5y agoThe two best mail clients, mutt and whatever people like that runs as part of emacs now, don't have read receipts at all. Even MS Outlook lets end users decline to send read receipts. There's probably some awful group policy system to force it, though.
- rhizome 5y agoI feel like there is a body of literature waiting to be written about businesses refusing to take a hint in favor of user-hostile decisions. These things are conscious choices by the senders and they had several meetings about it.