Early on in the life of Outlook Express, and until sometime in recent
memory, its return receipt feature was configured to require the
transmittal of a receipt from the recipient. That is, when the
recipient received such a message, the receipt would be transmitted
automatically. Today, however, that is no longer the case. The
recipient is now given an opportunity to either accept or reject the
request for a receipt.

When did MS make this change (Service Pack or critical update?) and
why do you suppose the change was made?

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Clarification of Question by nautico-ga on 14 Mar 2005 07:28 PST

Mark, I reposted that question. Please transfer your comment below to
that posting (as an answer) and delete it here.

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Clarification of Question by nautico-ga on 14 Mar 2005 08:07 PST

Dreamboat, you're right. Now why hadn't I remembered that?!

nautico --

I hope you don't mind me commandeering a new question of yours to give
you some new information on one of your closed questions, but I don't
know of another way to effectively reach you.

In this thread you asked about police enforcement of traffic laws on
private property:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=491921


"I gave you a rather quick "drive-by" comment that may have misled
you.  Feeling a bit guilty about that, I looked a little further and
found the following language in a recent advisory opinion of the
Florida Attorney General:

"This office has previously stated that the provisions of Chapter 316,
Florida Statutes, are enforceable on private property only when the
public has a right to travel by motor vehicle on such property.[2]
This conclusion was based on the language of section 316.640, Florida
Statutes, which provides, in part, that counties and municipalities
shall enforce state traffic laws on all streets and highways "wherever
the public has the right to travel by motor vehicle."[3] It is the
availability of the area or place for travel and the right of general
and common use that makes certain private property subject to public
control pursuant to Chapter 316, Florida Statutes.

"Thus, municipalities have enforcement authority with respect to
traffic violations and accidents occurring on "private property" where
the public has the right to travel by motor vehicle, such as in
shopping centers and parking lots. In 1987, however, section 316.006,
Florida Statutes, was amended to supply additional authority for
municipal law enforcement officers to enforce traffic laws on certain
private property.[4] As amended, section 316.006 (2)(b), Florida
Statutes, provides:

"'A municipality may exercise jurisdiction over any private road or
roads, or over any limited access road or roads owned or controlled by
a special district, located within its boundaries if the municipality
and party or parties owning or controlling such road or roads provide,
by written agreement approved by the governing body of the
municipality, for municipal traffic control jurisdiction over the road
or roads encompassed by such agreement. . . . '"

Attoney General of Florida: Advisory Legal Opinion AGO 2004-29, 6/18/04
http://myfloridalegal.com/ago.nsf/0/2be69982597761f385256eb7005f8fdf?OpenDocument


So, it appears that the municipal police do indeed have the authority
to ticket you for running a stop sign in a Florida shopping center.


markj-ga

Hi, nautico. To my knowledge, there has ALWAYS been the opportunity to
accept or reject. It's a setting. In Outlook Express 6.0, it's under
Tools-Options, Receipts tab. Also, I do not believe that the
"automatically" was ever a default setting. It would be a violation of
privacy, I think, for MS to make that a default setting without
explicitly making the user aware of it, which wouldn't be convenient.

:)