Does anyone else get annoyed when someone who e-mails you asks for a receipt? Those things are really starting to get on my nerves. The "no" button on the confirmation is looking ever more inviting these days, especially when you can't answer the e-mail straight away.

I just have this sinister image of the sender sitting on the other end comparing the time the message was displayed on the receipt to the time I reply, and keeping a record of the delays :rolleyes: "Tisk tisk, 4 hours 38 minutes and 54 seconds for that one!" :D

Anyone else find them annoying, or am I just a little strange?

I find those annoying too. The eMails won't be answered any faster ...and ya gotta love clicking "NO" knowing that the guy that send you the eMail is waiting for the confirmation :D

I always click No :P

I don't get very many, but the ones I do get..... I click NO!

I always click NO!

Pretty pointless really.

I don't bother clicking no, I just told outlook express to never send the receipts.

especially considering most of them are from junkmailers I find it a bit of a problem to go ahead and confirm that I'm reading their rubbish with my e-mail address. :)

I remember getting an e-mail from BC once that asked for a receipt. Just out of habit I'm pretty sure I poked no. Granted I'm pretty sure BC isn't in the habit of collecting e-mail addresses for his own secret haus-o-spam.

Hell I have enough trouble right now unentangling a new domain of mine from the ghoulish grip of the spammers. I grabbed an expired one only to find the previous owner wasn't too pro-active in reporting junk. Rest assured there's a lot of people getting notices from SpamCop right now :mad:

Greg Moore

Spamcop is worthless. I now just forward all spam to uce@ftc.gov

All the spam I was reporting via spamcop now has the reports going to level3@spamcop not the host of the abuse.

Originally posted by akashik
I remember getting an e-mail from BC once that asked for a receipt. Just out of habit I'm pretty sure I poked no. Granted I'm pretty sure BC isn't in the habit of collecting e-mail addresses for his own secret haus-o-spam.


Urgh, my first post in well over 2 weeks (or somewhere around there) so bear with me........

Greg, yeah, that was when I had originally set up Outlook 2000 (because it's initiated by default) and I had no idea until I started getting these stupid little receipts back to all my e-mails. I pretty much shut it down after a week because it was bloody annoying, and one of my contracting agents was using it farrrrrrrrrrr too much.......

And no, I had no intention of collating an e-mail DB for a haus-o-spam :D

I think I'll be clicking "no" from now on too! ;)

Sometimes they are fair enough though. Like when someone has just paid for a product or service and something has gone wrong in the system so they haven't got it... they obviously want to know that someone is actually on the other end and that they aren't being scammed.

Now what about HTML e-mails with those annoying stationaries? :D

Originally posted by BC
I started getting these stupid little receipts back to all my e-mails. I pretty much shut it down after a week because it was bloody annoying...

Too funny.
So on top of your usual daily intake of junkmail, you were adding to it via junkmailing youself with receipts :D

So where *have* you need hiding yourself?

Greg Moore

Originally posted by akashik


Too funny.
So on top of your usual daily intake of junkmail, you were adding to it via junkmailing youself with receipts :D

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :D Couldn't have said it better myself.....

So where *have* you need hiding yourself?

Greg Moore

I've been closeted away in my brand new job @ University, handling some of the web development and R&D for my faculty. Cool job, good money, great people - fantastic so far, though some of the politics around the various departments (including mine) has left quite a bit to be desired :rolleyes:

And of course, with my other commitments (piano concert in Sept., uni stuff, friends, etc.) this has meant I've spent far, far less time @ WHT, SP and my other hangouts than usual (visiting every 3 or 4 days.... ouch). Hopefully when my piano commitments finish in late Sept. I'll be back to normal.

Otherwise, I've been caught up with far too many 21st parties to remember (including one where I did a speech for one of my closest friends and ended up totally embarrassing her, successfully achieving my intent :D), and half of them; welllllllllllll let's just say I can't remember much.......

*eyes his fast-emptying cache of Coronas in the fridge*