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[Niklas Wenzel <nikwen.developer@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Am Freitag, 24. Juli 2015 schrieb Roberto Resoli :
> Il 23/07/2015 07:42, Matthias Apitz ha scritto:
>>
>> The point is, that even between trusted and identified person every side
>> should be able to let the sender in the unsureness if the message
>> arrived to his/her eyes or not. This is what privacy is called and which
>> is violated by Telegram.
>>
>>         matthias
>
> I agree with Mathias, this conceptually is the same as in return receipts
in ordinary email; it is a feature implemented by Mail User Agents, and
every (serious) Mail User Agent permits the user to disable it.
>
> If this feature is part of the Telegram protocol, the protocol itself is
seriously broken, and in that case I will avoid at all Telegram usage.
>
> MDNs (RFC 3798) are a formalization of "Return Receipts" , but exactly
for the same privacy reasons Mathias refers to, "requests for MDNs are
entirely advisory in nature - i.e. recipients are free to ignore such
requests":
>
>
https://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Return_receipt#Message_disposition_notifications
>
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