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

[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.