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If I choose to visit a website hosted by a server operated by someone else, that server is involved and can do whatever it wants.

If a piece of content is delivered to me via the mail, I should be able to open a cached version as many times as I want without any request to the remote server.

And the cached version can be built for me by my mail system, which by ALWAYS fetching the resources protects me.

As a question of what SHOULD happen, I thinkread receipts should be voluntary.



If a piece of content is delivered to me via the mail, I should be able to open a cached version as many times as I want without any request to the remote server. And the cached version can be built for me by my mail system, which by ALWAYS fetching the resources protects me.

Agreed, and not even the server has to do that, any good e-mail client could (as it seems Gmail is now starting to do).




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