Bill,
Doubt if it is possible, however, what you can do, depending on your situation is to change the receivers' side of things.
At my company, read and receipt confirmations are automatically awnsered yes, and the users do not have the ability to turn it off. Don't know exactly where, but some policy/registry setting i guess.
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