Networking consultant Keith Moore doesn’t ask for return receipts to confirm that his email has been delivered. This is somewhat ironic, as he was co-author of the 1996 specification that generates a confirmation message when an e-mail safely reaches its destination server. Moore, an advocate of measures to confirm email delivery, is “frustrated because end users’ e-mail software still lacks the design capability to use the server-to-server messages about completed email delivery” without user intervention, reports the New York Times.


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