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Outlook Plug-In Keeps Tone of Your Email In Check

Posted by samzenpus on from the vulcan-mail dept.

Meshach writes "A new plug-in for Outlook will warn you if an email you are about to send is 'too emotional.' Basically the plug-in scans the email for emotions such as elation, humiliation, excitement and fear. A user can set how much emotion they want to allow in their messages and if exceeded the threshold a warning will pop up."

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  1. Elation? by eldavojohn · · Score: 4, Funny

    WARNING: Outlook detected the phrase "full on double rainbow" as a modifying adjective in your e-mail and would like to remind you that this dangerously exceeds your predetermined threshold for elation and happiness. Outlook suggests taking one step down the elation scale and changing the phrase "Dude, last night that hooker was full on double rainbow!" to "Dude, last night that hooker was titties!" Yes/No?

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    1. Re:Elation? by RivenAleem · · Score: 2, Funny

      Disallowing *ouch* use of "win" *ouch* would only lead to brewing *ouch* discomfort and dwindling *ouch* friendship following *ouch* shortly thereafter with growing *ouch* tension among your peers

  2. How it works... by Nick+Fel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Years of research went into language analysis software for this plug-in before an intern stumbled on the genius idea of simply counting the exclamation marks.

    1. Re:How it works... by eldavojohn · · Score: 4, Funny

      Years of research went into language analysis software for this plug-in before an intern stumbled on the genius idea of simply counting the exclamation marks.

      I CAN THINK OF ANOTHER CONTRIBUTING FACTOR THAT IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR AWESOME.

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    2. Re:How it works... by SiaFhir · · Score: 5, Funny

      Years of research went into language analysis software for this plug-in before an intern stumbled on the genius idea of simply counting the exclamation marks.

      I CAN THINK OF ANOTHER CONTRIBUTING FACTOR THAT IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR AWESOME.

      IT COULD ALSO MEAN I'M PISSED OFF YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD.

    3. Re:How it works... by arth1 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Not to mention emotes.

      No worries there. This is Outlook, and Outlook will replace all your :-) with J

  3. Cool, now can they make a grammar checker? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Cool, now can they make a grammar checker?

    I has had two much emails from grammar Natzi saying I can't write.

    1. Re:Cool, now can they make a grammar checker? by ajlitt · · Score: 3, Funny

      Your message exceeds your Whoosh Factor.
      Would you like to...
      [Acquire Sense of Humor] [Cancel]

  4. Re:Old news by eldavojohn · · Score: 4, Funny

    Eudora had this 10 years ago (then called 'MoodWatch'). Good to see Microsoft keeping up...

    WARNING: Outlook has detected dangerously high levels of sarcasm in your post ...

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  5. Re:Old news by MyLongNickName · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hi,

    This is a third party app. I doubt Microsoft would even care to make something this useless. But thanks for showing that you are clueless and so is the moderator.

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  6. Re:Clippy lives! by Chrisq · · Score: 3, Funny

    The king is dead. Long live the king!

    You appear to be expressing too much frustration. Can I suggest replacing
    "If goddamn clippy pops up once more the computer' s going out the fucking window"
    with
    "the appearance of clippy seems to be non-optimal. This may result in displacement of the computer"

  7. Loss of meaning by Chrisq · · Score: 3, Funny
    The example on http://tonecheck.com/ shows the following crossed out:

    It has been annoying me for some time
    It has been upsetting me for some time
    It has been troubling me for some time
    and finally replaced with
    It has been concerning me for some time

    All these mean different things.

    My ability to get an erection has been upsetting me for some time
    My wife's laughter at this has been annoying me for some time
    It all started after I clicked on a goatse image, which has been troubling me for some time
    And the quality of the Viagra pills I have been buying cheap from Taiwan has been concerning me for some time

  8. BUT DOES IT CHECK THE SUBJECT LINE? by ari_j · · Score: 2, Funny

    For people who keep caps lock on and type the entire message in the subject.

  9. Re:Outborg? by Abstrackt · · Score: 2, Funny

    Locutus Notes was even worse. It assimilated all my documents then put my computer to sleep.

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  10. Re:Old news by Abstrackt · · Score: 4, Funny

    Eudora had this 10 years ago (then called 'MoodWatch'). Good to see Microsoft keeping up...

    WARNING: Outlook has detected dangerously high levels of sarcasm in your post ...

    Oh, a sarcasm detector, that's a real useful invention.

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