If you have shot off emails to old girlfriends at 2 am after coming home from the bar or in a rage of anger to your boss, GMail Engineer Jon Perlow has developed the perfect drunk email filter at Google Labs with GMail Mail Goggles (which counteract the power of Beer Goggles). [No, this does not seem to be an April Fools joke.]
Gmail can’t always prevent you from sending messages you might later regret, but today we’re launching a new Labs feature I wrote called Mail Goggles which may help.
When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you’re really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you’re in the right state of mind?
You can set GMail Mail Goggles to work around your schedule, so if you find yourself shooting off non-coherent emails on Saturday nights, set Mail Goggles to work at those times. If only Facebook had Goggles :)
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10 responses so far ↓
JMorris on Oct 7, 2008 at 7:18 am
:lol: Oh man! I love it!
Now, if only someone could make a similar plugin for blog software. ;)
Loren Baker, Editor on Oct 7, 2008 at 7:40 am
Blogs, cell phones, texting … LOL
NZ Scholar on Oct 7, 2008 at 9:04 am
this is great! am sure i’ll go crazy solving the math problems deciding not to send the email =p
Amit on Oct 7, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Really that is a very nice app that Gmail team has come up with, really cool when sending emails to big clients.
Nick Stamoulis on Oct 7, 2008 at 9:11 pm
This is priceless. I definitely think the texting/phone filter would be a cash cow! As someone else mentioned, if the Android had this feature, they’d sell like hotcakes! LOL
CAP DigiSoft Solutions on Oct 8, 2008 at 2:11 am
Great G Team :)))
This will help us in most cases while working with international clients. Most of us will be helpful if there is an update related to Junk mails and spam mails.
ecommerce mumbai on Oct 8, 2008 at 3:17 am
wow! that’s why I love google every time they come up with some innovative ideas. I think this feature will set up a new trend in e-world
Saad Kamal on Oct 8, 2008 at 5:20 am
Quite an interesting app. But I dont think I’ll be needing it :P
jdelfin on Oct 9, 2008 at 5:44 am
man, I’ll have difficulty doin that even when I’m sober..
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