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To: mr.mark who wrote (20995)	6/25/2001 2:16:21 AM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

mr mark, so notification of opened e-mail is within AOL between AOL members only? No, I was not aware of that feature. MSN doesn't have it and a couple of other ISPs I've used don't either. So if I receive spam in MSN, the sender won't know whether I opened it. Gottfried

To: mr.mark who wrote (20995)	6/25/2001 11:09:56 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

This is interesting, re receipts (and Outlook Express.) In the OE index, i found this: You can set up Outlook Express to receive a receipt for e-mail you send. The receipt is sent when the message recipient has displayed your message. This is useful when you are sending time-critical information, or any time you want confirmation that your message has been received. To request a read receipt for individual messages, click the Tools menu in the new message window, and then click Request Read Receipt. To request a read receipt for all messages, click the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Receipts tab. Select the Request a read receipt for all sent messages check box. Note Message recipients can choose not to send read receipts, even when they are requested. If you do not want to send receipts, click the Tools menu, and then click Options. On the Receipts tab, select the Returning Read Receipts option you want. The parts I bolded raise two questions to me. One is, if I have removed the Preview option, and just right click the message in the inbox (which does highlight it), does the message send a receipt anyway? The second is, does the second part mean that if I instruct, under Options and Receipts, that a Read receipt never be sent, do you think that would fool the spammers into thinking i'm a non-live address? Wait, there's a third question. There is another Option under Receipts, and that is "Notify me for each read receipt request." I've always had that bulleted (I assume it's the default) but only gotten a couple of those since I got a computer, neither from a spammer. Do you think that suggests that the spammers aren't requesting receipts? Of course maybe they are set up not to honor those requests to be notified of requests... lol....