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

[shirou]

I ignore them, but I respond to emails at my leisure and will sometimes take days to respond to a simple text message. I readily admit I can be a horrible communicator, although I do think it has served me well at work that I reserve time to focus on my projects and limit the amount of time that gets sucked into internal communications.