I confess I've been playing catch-up, so I may have missed this
(although I'll put in a plug here for Eudora 6 Beta's ability to
present a summary of a conversation with all the quoted text
elided--incredibly useful).
I've seen two issues going by on C/R. One is where the response goes
(normal email reply, or delivery notification reply). And the other
is dealing with mailing lists.
My gut says that C/R is a delivery notification. But the problem is
more complicated.
I'm not so worried about mailing lists. What worries me is what
happens when Amazon sends me an out-of-stock notice and I send a C/R
to the envelope from. What are the odds that it's going to be
treated as a bounce, and I get taken off their list?
Commercial "transactional" email worries me more than mailing lists.
It's not just that the mail's more critical, but updating it to some
new standard is harder. Those systems are largely homegrown, whereas
lists tend to use standard software and/or services. Lists are
easier to change to a new standard.
Thoughts?
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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