...to your fucking article and fucking fuckfest you fucking almost fucking hid but left fucking just fucking visible.

Classic!

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13880_3-9929823-68.html. 'Nuf said

If it only takes you five seconds to realize your email might get you in trouble, you obviously aren't pissed off enough. I suggest getting worked up more, then regret it the next day.

see: Omega 13 device from Galaxy Quest

"2) Author regrettable email message.

5) Atone for your wicked, wicked ways."

HAHAHAHAHA just ended up covering my work monitors with tea. You owe me a new one :)

Assmouth classic

/Would call my boss that but I like my job :P

Can I get something similar for FaceBook? I think I may have made a mistake tonight.....

Steven R

perhaps people could just use their brains every now and again if they thought about what they were doing before they did it they would realise they didnt have to hit send at all. Proof reading takes maybe 30 seconds for your average email and saves you a lot of hassle. Society is getting more and more stupid but a good idea I guess

This isn't a feature, its just that they've added a timer to you sending your mail. What happens when they decide that you want to "undo" a message you sent the night before, we'll see them delay all mail for a day before sending. If anything this all sounds like a way to ask users to be in a bandwidth shaping scheme for gmail.

...to the ancient, cross-platform technique of waiting an extra 5 seconds before pressing Send, no?

Gmail's User Experience Designer Michael Leggett illustrates the team's M.O.:

"Sometimes I regret sending a message the morning after.

5 seconds will be REALLY helpful then!!

I remember whan I was at work a colleague sent me a snottygram which he later regretted and followed it up with four or five cancel messages from LookOut! As I was using Netscape Communicator at the time I got the lot, and finally a telephone call to apologise. I was amused.

If someone hits the "undo send" button, it's a fair guess that there was something in the message that they really, really don't want the recipient to see. After all, if you merely forgot to attach a file {NB: Kmail, which I use as my main email client, warns you and gives you an option to abort sending a message if you used a word such as "attached" or "attachment" in the text, but didn't attach a file. It's saved me more times than I care to remember}, you can just try again; this time sending only the attachment {since the recipient already has the text}.

It's not such a huge leap to imagine that undoing the sending of an e-mail might end up becoming the sort of "premium" service for which money could reasonably be charged. £50 would be a small price to pay to have a "thank you for last night" message {meant for your mistress} removed from your wife's inbox!

considering that most of my regrettable emails, forum posts and general unpleasant internet discourse, are made when I'm completely arse faced and drunk, means that 5 seconds to hit undo is akin to wanking an elephant with a pair of tweasers ...... quite useless

therefore i suggest a breathalyzer affixed to a usb port, which will detect when you are out of it, and prevent you from embarrassing yourself via email, IM twatter, arsebook and other such assorted interweb paraphernalia....

wow, they are so clever!!!!one!

Just kidding. This feature is shit.

Just. Fucking. Beautiful.

My company uses a combination of Linux (in the research and IT divisions) and Microsoft (in HR and admin) mail systems. I'm always amused when one of my admin colleagues tries to use Outlook's "Recall This Message" option to delete an email that they realise they shouldn't have sent. Sorry, guys, it doesn't work like that over here in Linux land. Now, let's see what juicy gossip was in your original email ... :-)

As my Finnish wife used to say after getting an earful of English repartee...

(Paris cos she might find this feature useful and must be kicking herself for not having it in the past)

How dare El Reg spy on my emails to the bank manager.

You mean, like the way Kmail already does?

Back in the old days we had this, we had the whole time the modem was handshaking and trying to transmit to decide otherwise and stop the mail!

Could we have a user definable pause, please? Mine'd be half an hour.

when I were a lad all this was fields

grumble grumble curmudgeon etc.

"Scan the mail for attach, attached, enclosed or other such words and warn you if you didn't add an attachment. That'd save plenty of embarrassment."

I have this already for Outklook - see http://manage-this.com/handy-outlook-attachment-reminder-macro/

Also warns you before sending a meeting request with no location or a message with a blank subject line.

But you wont find that pause rule accessible in Outlook Web Access will you?

Kind of the whole point of Gmail is to be accessible from just about anywhere like OWA is.

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Mind you I'm not sure if you can set up the rule in 'full-fat' outlook and it will be done in OWA too?

akin to wanking an elephant with a pair of tweasers

Wow, learned something new today...i didn't even know that was possible.

Anyway, that's MR. to you.