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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. 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 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.