Re: RCPT: Interactive Physics and Netscape cont.

[rsmith@gulf.net (Dick Smith)]

Don Boys writes:

> Date:          Tue, 2 Apr 1996 10:43:32 EDT
> Reply-to:      phys-l@atlantis.cc.uwf.edu
> From:          "Don Boys" <BOYS_D@MSB.FLINT.UMICH.EDU>
> To:            phys-l@atlantis.cc.uwf.edu
> Subject:       RCPT: Interactive Physics and Netscape cont.
>
>
> Why do I keep getting these messages?
>
>
> Confirmation of reading: your message -
>
>    Date:     2 Apr 96 16:05
>    To:       phys-l@atlantis.cc.uwf.edu
>    Subject:  Interactive Physics and Netscape cont.
>
> Was read at 10:43, 2 Apr 1996.


I think it is because the original sender of the note, whose subject was
"Interactive Physics and Newscape cont" had requested acknowledgment of
reading.  This tag was carried in the PHYS-L distribution, so when Don read
it, his mailer sent an acknowledgment back to the sender of *his* mail,
which was phys-l.  Listproc just figured it was a post and circulated it.
The same thing happened when *anybody" opened that post to read it.

I've written the sender of that original note and asked that the
"Confirm-On-Reading" tag be NOT USED on posts to phys-l, or for that matter
to *any* list. 


Dick Smith
Department of Physics
The University of West Florida
Pensacola, FL 32514
(904)474-2269
rsmith@uwf.cc.uwf.edu