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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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  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: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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  4. 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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