OT: Email recall - What was the point?

[Ken Burtch]

When I designed a workorder system for Ontario schools a few years ago, 
one of the features I urged them to accept was a 15 minute delay after 
creating a workorder or memo.  While the workorder/memo was queued, the 
user could re-edit it or cancel it.  After 15 minutes, the workorder was 
forwarded for approval by the work dispatcher or the memo was delivered. 
The 15 minute delay really insignificant in the response time to sending a 
repairman to the school.

Sometimes I think that software is designed to run as fast as possible and 
not enough thought is given to the human factors.  I wish email, facebook, 
etc. all had a 15 minute delay.

Ken B.

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On Tue, 25 May 2010, ted leslie wrote:

> i would love that option of undo in gmail, as sometimes some key slip i make sends the email before i am finished,
> but i looked for the setting you mentioned, and can't find it. ???
>
> tl
>
> On Tue, 25 May 2010 11:44:13 -0400
> Fabio FZero <fabio.fzero-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> 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...
>>
>> To: all-//Bz/+gSJx1BDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
>> From: me-//Bz/+gSJx1BDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
>> Subject: UR ALL ASSHOLEZ! LOLZ!
>>
>> - 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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