[10066] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Adding services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dick St.Peters)
Sat Feb 5 14:36:20 1994
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 94 14:24:07 EST
From: stpeters@spare-parts.crd.ge.com (Dick St.Peters)
To: JE01@academia.swt.edu
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Reply-To: <stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com>
> In re: Lloyds posting, the thing I hear most often, is business people wanting
> some sort of "return-receipt-requested". This is to say -- they want to know
> that *that* message was received (and for that matter, read). They have gotton
> used to it using Compu$erve, and want Internet e-mail to do it too.
This is built into most mail systems - it's part of the RFC822 mail
standard. Add the header
Return-Receipt-To: <your-address>
and you'll get receipts back.
Don't do this when sending mail to mailing lists :-)
--
Dick St.Peters
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
