It most quantumly does my fine feline friend, for i here in my box certainly have access to no information as to whether you did or you didn't or whether you are or you aren't...but then again cats are known to be such curious creatures...

However - and just to complicate matters - a leading professor in the Department of Philosophy here at the institute is adamant that the clause "don't read this" is in fact self-referent, and so claims that the very act of comprehending this written emphatic occurs simultaneously with a refusal to obey its imperative. (this would of course result in the immediate nullification of any causal relationships that might have otherwise been considered to have existed between the act of the reading of the post's subject line and any and all subsequent events - which might include - for instance - the opening of the post in question.)

On a much less metaphysical level, one could have - and this is what i myself actually did - one could have paid a third party a small sum of money to open the post and then relate the contents to one orally, thus allowing acquaintance with the meanings expressed therein while remaining completely in accordance with the terms of the original command.

Another far more abstract option that we here at the institute are able to offer readers after a meeting of department heads hastily convened specifically for the purpose of finding all possible solutions to this perplexing problem, was that one could actually open the post, read it, and then not reply - thereby making it appear for all intents and purposes that one had in fact not read the post at all.

Interesting stuff, and aren't we the lucky ones on this board to have been graced with such an enormous intellect as that which glorious nature has compressed into the cranial cavities of the poster who initiated this thought provoking exchange.