Google takes aim at drunken messaging The forward-thinking folks at Google have implemented a novel solution to prevent regretful drunken digital correspondence to friends, family, co-workers, and loved ones. Gmail engineer Jon Perlow is introducing Mail Goggles, a new feature that will tease the bean before ill-conceived late night and weekend emails can be sent …
I have been debating doing this myself.
Too easy to pen off some bizarre rant, after suckling at the teat of hopee goodness.
And some people just don't share the same sense of humour, that a few pints or glasses of vino insist is universal.
Though, I would say that most net communications unless accompanied with a Card number should be taken with a pinch of salt, it is just a bunch of nerds seeing what is possible using long distance, immediately available written communication, I don't know why everyone else takes it so seriously.
seriously, half the article made no sense to me. Was it written between 10pm and 4 am on a Friday?
"tease the bean"?
"offers the constitution a checkup" - what, no more bill of rights
"Sarah, Hideous, and Bent are less likely to be conjured from the painful past due to an inadvisable excess of spirits" - wtf!
I like this idea. But to be honest, I don't think it'll be that useful for me.
Now if they could make an app for my phone to stop me sending those texts that I always regret, I'd buy it!
It surely wouldn't be hard to make the phone recognise when it takes me more than four attempts to spell each word, and just quietly ignore my requests to 'send' and instead consign the message to a holding area for my mortified review the next morning.
... based in the US? Trying to write in (what looks like) English style without the upbringing can be fraught with danger. I agree there's a few terms there that don't look to be fully grasped by the author, or, he may indeed have been under the influence.
Then again, I can't complain - there's been a few comments of mine written under the influence of "hopee goodness" ...
Boffins - 'coz it's easy to confuse beer goggles with boffin goggles when you're pissed.
So I can pay a proper geek to write it as a text input parser on all applications to stop me emailing drunken hate mail, and posting utter toss here, and on other forums etc, when I have had one more beer than is strictly necessary? Likewise with text messages. And speaking - we could get Captain Cyborg involved.
Quite literally a case of 'engage brain before opening mouth'.
That would save me so much trouble on Saturday, Sunday and Monday mornings....
Actually, this is probably one of the *better* ideas to come out of Web 2.0 - at least it's potentially useful, eh?
Steven R
The default setting of it stopping working at 4am will need changing for most people in the UK, as this is about the time I normally come home on a Saturday/Sunday morning. I'd say it needs to work until at least lunchtime the following day.
Great idea though. Would certainly stop a few people getting into trouble.
How I wish they'd do something equivalent for website comments.
"You're an idiot. Are you sure you want to broadcast this to the internet? Answer these simple questions to verify."
Followed by basic enquiries as to how much Jeremy Kyle you watch and whether you know your 'your' from your 'you're'. Might cut down the field a bit. We long for the day.
(The 'offending' mail hasn't appeared yet, but---)
No, I'm not an idiot. Mensa member for 30- odd years. IQ 179.
Watch NO jeremy whatsisface, 'cos we don't get it (receive or underststand) here in Oulu. Get Emmerdale and similar 'downware', like "Heartbeat".
Oulu? No, it's not a village in Hawaii. It's in Finland. Cupid Stunt (not at you, Sara)
Oh, yes, The poster is obviously a "kusipää" = Pis*h-ead.
Doesn't know his ars'se from his elbo'w. And can't spel, ether. Nor punctuate. Greengrocer's appostrophe's, anyone
Think (s)he didn't like the Mohatma or Muhammed reference.
-Happy days! ;-)
<<"please restore my H in future or I shall be obliged to address you as 'Angus'.">>
So, it's no longer "Andus McCoatover" but "Angus McCoatup". Couldn't resist. Nah...
'Shore fing. (Shorely shome mishtake </Sean Connery>)
By the way, at the bottom of the page, here's the missing "H". Sorry 'bout that. Muvver said I always drop my 's (Damn, done it again! it's below.)
H
Here's also the missing "N" from the command "umount". Can you pop it in an envelope, and send it back to AT&T labs? Ta muchly. They've been missing it since before the PFY was a nipper.
H N
So the Spanish for Dumb is "bobo" - are you sure the first o isn't an e?
Just wondering, as in my attempt at IT teaching a couple of years ago, the pupils spent a great deal of time and energy trying to find anonymous proxy servers so they could use a certain website that was blocked in school, but they found more interesting than spreadsheets and databases themed around "Five a Day"...
...Can't imagine why, I've always found spreadsheets and databases highly entertaining...
(You're looking at a guy who inputs his car mileage and fill-up details on a spreadsheet to track fuel economy / fuel prices)
(And who has created a Sudoku helper app...in Excel...without macros...)
So you're off your face and manage to get through the basic math and send innapropriate love/hate letters involving an egg whisk, a beach ball and a hosepipe.
The receiver KNOWS you weren't kidding since you passed the goggle-test and were therefore sober and in your right mind when you sent it.
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