OT: Email recall - What was the point?

[Fabio FZero]

It's a Lab feature, you have to activate it. Just go to settings,
activate Labs and find it among the gazillions of addons (some of them
are pretty cool BTW).

- FZ

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:22, ted leslie <tleslie-RBVUpeUoHUc at public.gmane.org> 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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