New Tool Shows Would-Be Emailers If You're Swamped

Posted by timothy on Monday June 6, 2011 @05:09PM from the my-dad-has-400k-messages-in-his-inbox dept.

alphadogg writes "A Georgia Tech researcher is taking aim at email overload with a new tool that shows people thinking about messaging you just how swamped your Gmail account is, in real time. Assistant Professor of Computing Eric Gilbert's research project, taking the form of the freely available 'Courteous.ly' service, which does require you to allow access to your email account (initially the service only works with Gmail). 'Courteous.ly helps manage expectations and lets people choose to send mail when it's best for you,' he says." This sounds like an ugly thing to game, though -- it seems like a good way to keep score in a mailbombing.

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Re:How Many Ways Can This Be Used by FatdogHaiku · 2011-06-06 21:21 · Score: 4, Funny

Hey, you're only being asked to open your email account to a domain registered in Libya, it's not like anything bad could happen...
crap, I think I broke my own sarcasm meter.

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