I get them with correspondence from my daughter's school. I guess they want to confirm which parents read the email
--- On Mon, 6/15/09, Grace M. <grace...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Grace M. <grace...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [TMIC] read receipts? To: jharpe...@aol.com Cc: k...@frontiernet.net, tmic-list@eskimo.com Date: Monday, June 15, 2009, 12:36 PM It's just a feature of mail programs that notifies the sender that their mail has been received and opened. I only use it for business correspondence. Grace