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Gmail Adds 5 Second Send Rule
theatrecade was one of a few folks to note that Google Labs has added the
five-second rule to email. Once upon a time this rule only applied to delicious foodstuffs dropped on the floor, but at long last you can change your mind on that email to your boss or ex. We shall see peace in our lifetimes.
I understand the rationale on this but the hold time needs to be much longer...like 12 hours for it to be effective.
Or it should be combined with the beer goggles add-on.
Either way, this won't stop my ex-girlfriend from drunk-calling me...
We don't live in Shouldland.
a/s/l?
I want you to tweak my nipples with a grapefruit spoon.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
Oops, wrong channel.
Dammit. When is slashdot going to implement the five second rule?
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
I used to work for a company where The Managing Director frequently used to send (usually offensive) emails to the wrong people by accident. His usual error was to insult someone behind their back and accidentally include them in the cc field!
Whenever this happened, he used to come hurtling down the stairs and rip out the Ethernet cable from the mail server in an attempt to stop the mail going out!
At first I thought he was trying to outrun the electron charge as it traversed through the network cabling, but it turns out that at some point in the past, someone had reconfigured the mail server to delay all mail by 30 seconds, just so he had time to rip out the Ethernet cable in an emergency!
No, but it's certainly enough time to stop the mail and add another 'FUCK YOU' to the end.
Some people can barely react in that time
Yeah, but most of the people who can't react in <5 seconds are on the roadways in Florida, not behind a computer screen ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Are you sure?
Whenever this happened, he used to come hurtling down the stairs and rip out the Ethernet cable from the mail server in an attempt to stop the mail going out!
At first I thought he was trying to outrun the electron charge as it traversed through the network cabling, but it turns out that at some point in the past, someone had reconfigured the mail server to delay all mail by 30 seconds, just so he had time to rip out the Ethernet cable in an emergency!
It occurs to me that if you laid the Ethernet cable for the mail server across those stairs you could allow him to accomplish his goal of preventing the mail from going out while providing endless amounts of humor for the rest of the office ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
They do nothing!
This sounds inherently stupid. How many people send an e-mail, just to think: "oh no!" 2 - 4 seconds later.
A lot. I've had this happen. It happens no /. to.
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The other day I felt so generous that I sent an email telling someone that I would pay 2,000, 000, million billion US dollars to anyone who would help me get my dead father's money out of Nigeria.
A second later I thought "you know I could just keep the money myself", but it was too late. Keep looking, you might be the lucky one getting my email.
did I really send that email confessing my true feelings to that girl I had a crush on in high school but hadn't talked to in 15 years?"
Yes, you did. Now cut it out before I get a restraining order ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
I thought Slashdot already had an article on this feature. It's called Mail Goggles. It won't stop you from sending the email, but it may slow you down.
Unfortunately, I have a Masters Degree in Drunken Calculus, so that feature won't help me :(
My old mail server was setup to queue mail from 9 PM to 8 AM. This was to prevent me from emailing after drinking at the bar.
You can't legislate goodness. Let each to his own destiny, by will of his freely made choices.
A lot. I've had this happen. It happens no /. to.
Like the times when one typos a two letter word.
Your ad here.
There is no such condition as "decision anxiety".
You must choose either Cognitive dissonance OR Multipotentiality
Drunken Calculus...wasn't that a Jackie Chan movie?
waht button/?
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
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How many times did you come running into work in your boxers with a major hangover at 7:59am screaming UNPLUG THE MAIL SERVER! UNPLUG THE MAIL SERVER!?
"Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns" -Journal of Political Econom
You seem to be writing an inflammatory email. Should I help make sure it doesn't go to your boss?
Or
You seem to be writing a drunken email to your ex-girlfriend. Are you sure you want to do this?
Unfortunately, I have a Masters Degree in Drunken Calculus, so that feature won't help me :(
Yes. As long as you know not to mix drinking and deriving.
<ducks>
Practice Kind Randomness and Beautiful Acts of Nonsense.
Outbound qué?
-dZ.
Carol vs. Ghost
it is cool to start a thought in the subject field, and finish it in the body field.
Good grief how I hate that. It can completely change the meaning of a post.
Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor - Ovidius
We're going in so many tangents we may as well be a derivative.