jthurman Says: Along with overuse of the high-priority flag, I hate overuse of the “receipt acknowledgement” flag. When I read a message from certain people, outlook always pops up the dialog box saying “this person has requested acknowledgement that you have read their message.” While I hate seeing that dialog, I’m glad it asks me if I want to send the acknowledgement, and I almost always click NO.

I've taken to saying yes when I read something sent to a lot of people and not relevant to me, in the hopes that the sender will eventually be annoyed enough to turn off receipt request.

hop Says: When you are subscribed to a mailing list, please, please, pretty please, do not start a new thread by reusing a mail that came from that list, hitting the reply button, deleting all the content and filling in your new topic. Or worse again, hitting reply, changing the subject and not deleting the content, or sometimes not even changing the subject line. Or on yahoo groups, replying to a digest mail and quoting the entire digest.