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.
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From: [personal profile] word_geek


Exactly this. And I have one person I work with who appears to have set her email to always send a read receipt (though, thinking about it, maybe she has now switched that off). But it meant she got multiple emails from me, probably. One when I triaged it, and then tagged it unread and filed it in Actions, another when I actually replied to it. And if I picked up from the mailbox, she might have had a third when the triage person for the shared box told her we'd get to her edit in $time. So three emails telling her someone read it, two of them alongside Actual Responses.

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From: [personal profile] liseuse


Thankfully very few people in my workplace bother with them, which is partly because our IT people asked people to not use them as a blanket technique because they were snarling up the helpdesk ticket system (auto-replies also do this, sighhh). But some external people do and look, the quote I requested is probably important to me, but I'm still not sending you a read receipt to prove that I opened/read it.
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