Friday's Unscientific Poll: Read receipts

[nanila]

Poll #23032 Read receipts

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 48

When I receive a request for a read receipt on an email message, I

Ignore it
40 (83.3%)

Send it
8 (16.7%)

Well. Not so much opinions as An Opinion, which is that I loathe them. I have never ever sent one. To me an email message is like a paper letter in this way. Once I have sent it, it's up to the recipient when and if they read it and choose to respond.

Comments

[emelbe]

I will not only ignore it but I use a preview pane so if it's something I don't need to respond to and if I'm feeling petty, I'll delete it which will trigger a "deleted unread" message to the sender.

Go ahead. Call me on it.

[nanila]

Oooooh, harsh. However. I would have loved to have done that to the most recent instance of read receipt request message I received, since it was so impolite, so demanding, and so totally outside my remit. >:E