From: Richard Webb 
Subject: receipts, etc,
On 1997-07-08 Brian wrote:
   >Noticed your mail system sent the following receipt the dog
   >biscuit recipie had been read.
   >You may wish to check your software as if it does this
   >regularly, it could flood the nfbtalk conference of fidonet with
   >these receipts.
Not quite, Brian, but close.  Chief@crown.net sent a "Confirm reading"
on his message.He did it again on a message I saw this evening.
Lots of mail software use receipt requests, etc , but good netiquette
should dictate that they nbot be used on mail destined for mailingn
lists.
The fault may not be with Doris' sofgtware as it's used within the
agency she works for, and interoffice stuff probably gets such flags
frequently.  The fault is with people using such flags on messages
destined for mailing lists.
A word to wise participants in this list from the internet side, don't
use such flags as confirm reading and receipt requested, please!
They'll generate a lot of unnecessary traffic for the list.
Doris and I had already talked about this, and I'm sure David would
say the same thing.
SPeaking of that, manyu don't seem to realize anymore that this list
was a fidonet backboned echo before it was a listserv.  Fidonet
doesn't like to route binaries, such as uuencoded or mime encoded
files, through their routing backbone.
Also, a lot of fido systems move the mail over long distance telephone
thanks to the largess of the bbs sysops.  WAs one of those, and an ex
officio hub for southeast Iowa for awhile.
I can tell you personally that the phone bills get to be fun .
I'm not meaning to pick on chief@crown.net here,  but receipt requests
and over quoting on mailing lists such as this one just ad to the
noise level on such a list.
Check out what your software does to outgoing mail, and eliminate such
things as these beoffre you hit the send key.  The other list
participants will appreciate it, and the fido sysops will really
appreciate it.
REgards,
Richard Webb
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