OT: Email recall - What was the point?

[Fabio FZero]

Well, gmail has "Undo send", but it only works for 5 seconds after you
hit send (more if you configure is differently). Anyway this is
*completely* different from recalling an email after it has been sent
- and totally useless if you send something like...

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- FZ

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:39, Yanni Chiu <yanni-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
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> Yanni
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