Prevent Gmail From Emailing Under the Influence

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 7, 2008 @04:29PM from the chili-meter-with-brains dept.

mikesd81 writes "Google has developed 'Mail Goggles,' a Gmail add-on that makes sending email from Gmail more difficult during certain times (which you can set). If you have Mail Goggles installed, it will force you to answer a series of math questions before sending out any new messages. You can adjust the math difficulty and times this option is in effect. If you get any of the questions wrong, Mail Goggles will say, 'Water and bed for you. Or try again.' Of course, if you set the math settings too high, you may have a tough time solving some of those problems in under 60 seconds, even when sober. Then again, if you're sober, you could just turn Mail Goggles off and hit send on that impassioned letter to your ex-boyfriend/girlfriend or that flame to your boss."

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and google helps you solve them by NiteMair · 2008-10-07 16:48 · Score: 5, Insightful

If you're not sober enough to do the math, perhaps you're sober enough to copy/paste them into google so it can give you the answers ;)
This is just google's elaborate ploy... by Martian_Kyo · 2008-10-07 21:48 · Score: 5, Insightful

...to gather drunkard statistics. I bet you'll see a lot more alcohol related google ads after failing a few of those tests.
A better thing would be, NOT to tell you you were wrong but to pretend to send the mail and then notify you few hours after (when you are PROBABLY sober) about your failure.