On Thu, 2022-09-15 at 11:34 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
- Getting a read receipt cannot be interpreted as meaning that the receiver did read the message (let alone understood it).
As with SMSs, you only really know if it was received and understood when you get a reply.
To sum up: read receipts are a misfeature, except in the special case of internal mail where they are part of corporate policy.
I'm reminded of a scene in a tv comedy series about government bureaucracy, where in one episode their email server was down, but they were still emailing each other by passing their laptops around. Something tells me the writers didn't just invent that scenario out of thin air.