[mso] Re: A feature I might like

  • From: "Troy" <testtroy@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 12:28:37 -0500

Problem is that you can only recall that message if both parties are on an
Exchange email system.

Troy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Mucher" <mmucher@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 11:26 AM
Subject: [mso] Re: A feature I might like


>
> In Outlook you can "recall this message" - not the same, but close...
>
> Mark=20
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On =
> Behalf
> Of James S. Huggins (MSO)
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 12:22 PM
> To: Microsoft Office List
>
>
>
> On more than one occasion (not frequently, but more than once), I have
> accidentally sent an email I was not ready to send.
>
> Sometimes it is clicking the send button accidentally. Other times it is
> Ctrl-S inadvertently keyed (usually because my left hand doesn't get off =
> the
> Ctrl key fast enough.)
>
> Here is the feature I might like=09
>
> an OPTION
> user selectable, either as the default or on a message by message basis =
> to
> enable a "send safety"
>
> The "send safety" would require two actions to trigger a send instead of
> just one.
>
>
> Today, I implement the Send Safety my own way, either (a) not providing =
> an
> email address to send to until I am done or (b) composing the email =
> outside
> of Outlook. I have also contemplated a more "global" "Send Safety" I =
> could
> implement by making my default account one that does not work, which =
> would
> require that I first select a valid account and then send.
>
>
> I post it here because I'm curious about two things.=20
>
> 1. Has anyone else ever experienced the dreaded "premature sending"?
> and
> 2. What does the group think about a "send safety" as a concept?
>
>
> James S. Huggins
>
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