OT: Email recall - What was the point?

[Yanni Chiu]

William Muriithi wrote:
> Which bring the question, why did Microsoft ever place such a useless
> feature on their application? When was it ever able to work?

The useful scenario I've seen is where an email is sent out to a large 
group (e.g. company wide), but there's wrong information or 
missing/wrong attachment. People who've already read the email before 
the recall, will have it in their inbox. Others, who have not yet 
retrieved the email, will never know of the incorrect version, and won't 
be bothered with the incorrect information.

If the mistake is caught and fixed early, only a small percentage of the 
100's or more recipients will see the mistake.

-- 
Yanni
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists