Gmail adds "mail goggles" to deter drunken e-mailing

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Gmail adds "mail goggles" to deter drunken e-mailing

#1 Post by earendel » Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:38 am

Google has added a new feature to their gmail application, a setting that users can customize and that helps deter sending e-mails when under the influence. The "mail goggles" feature requires the user to answer some simple math questions before allowing him or her to send a message. The idea is that if the user's faculties are sufficient to permit answering math questions, the user is probably sober enough to know what he or she is doing.
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Re: Gmail adds "mail goggles" to deter drunken e-mailing

#2 Post by TheConfessor » Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:27 am

Great idea. Maybe we can implement that feature in the next upgrade to this bored. With the right filters, people could be prevented from posting on a subject they know nothing about, at least until they sober up.

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