On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 14:22 +0200, deech wrote:
> Not Zed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >> Do you know if there is a special reason why it's not supported by evo yet?
> >> I mean, a lot of 'big' mail clients support this, like Mozilla-mail,
> >> thunderbird, kmail, a certain out-of-the-windows-look client ;)
> >
> >Probably none of us see it as very important.  Its an intrusion on
> >personal privacy, and if you can turn it off, which you would have to be
> >able to for the reason just mentioned, then it can never actually
> >guarantee anything anyway.
> >
> >Its like ringing someones phone to see if they're home.  If they answer
> >you know they are, but if they don't, it doesn't mean they aren't.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Just one more comment from me on this read receipt thing....It might be
> more important than you describe and there may be more people wanting this
> feature since it is listed as a $500 bountie on gnome.org (see
> http://www.gnome.org/bounties/Mailer.html#127534 )

we know, we put up the bounty :-)

it takes that much just to get someone interested enough just to think
about implementing it and still no one has bothered :-(

> 
> You can imagine I'm hope someone will claim this bountie soon ;)

with the lack of interest that a $500 reward has generated, I wouldn't
expect it anytime soon.

Jeff

-- 
Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  - www.novell.com

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