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

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:38 am
by earendel
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.

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

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:27 am
by TheConfessor
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.