>You can see if someone has read your message using the "return receipt
>requested" or whatever it is called in most email anyway.
There's still a difference in using documented standards and placing
invisible remote images creating a request on a server anywhere and thereby
logging the user's mail receipt directly without his/her knowledge.
>I'd thought that the umlauts in german can be swapped for a following "e"??
Exactly, I'd just like this to be the standard. When I write an article and
send it via mail, I have to use either HTML or zipped 8-bit ASCII because
otherwise the recipient would have to re-convert all the umlauts (cannot be
done automatically) in order to publish it.
Erik Moeller