Google Total (email) Recall
Author: James Arlen
From the Official Gmail Blog…
Turn on Undo Send in Gmail Labs under Settings, and you’ll see a new “Undo” link on every sent mail confirmation. Click “Undo,” and we’ll grab the message before it’s sent and take you right back to compose.
I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this – I think that it may lead to a certain “carelessness” of the type usually displayed by Edna who frequently attempts to recall messages sent from Outlook. I think that I’m on the side of the good old days – when an email left the MUA, it was GONE. Of course, Gmail isn’t exactly a normal MUA.
How do you feel about it?
Comments please!
Yes, I wanted a pic of the governator up there, but in the end, this feature from Google is all about the rainbow vomiting unicorns that make the Internet a happy place for people who live a carefree life.
(CC licensed image from Scrunchleface’s Flickr stream.)
Tags: google, gmail, message recall, total recall
Looking at the announcement it looks like if you opt into the service they delay your mail for 5 seconds. If you see an error immediately after you hit send you can recall. Don’t see a problem with that.
As for people being careless with email … that’s a battle already lost. Good netiquette is more a function of the user than the software.
I completely agree with you. I suppose that I’m just looking for ways to raise the bar rather than continue the process of lowering it.
With all this Web 2.0 business, lowering the bar is the new raising the bar.