On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Noel Jones <njo...@megan.vbhcs.org> wrote: > Costin Guşă wrote: >>
[...] >> >> I'd like to mimic M$ Exchange "recall" behaviour for emails sent by >> relay-allowed clients. >> [...] > > I don't think this is a good idea at all. > > Folks by now somewhat expect mail being near real time, and will think your > system is broken if it takes an hour or more to deliver anything. yes, it's true that people expect instant delivery; however I was thinking at short delays such as 5 minutes, since most regrettable errors are discovered within the next few seconds following the event, so keeping the mail in queue for extra five minutes wouldn't bother the majority. note that I didn't mention that I actually _want_ to do this, but this has come up as a proposed solution to these kind of people with whom I am interacting - I am supporting the IT in a field where being computer literate is not a mandatory skill for a manager. > > I think the recall feature is rather bogus anyway; you can't recall anything > sent to a non-exchange site and you can't tell the recipient to unread > something they already looked at. One could argue that features that work > part of the time are broken by design. > I know this might turn into patching the effect instead of eliminating the cause - but that's the most I am able to do now; after all, we are all humans and prone to errors and my belief is that instead of humans adapting to technology (as it happens now) it would be much better for technology to adapt to humans. Maybe I am already offtopic, so I should stop here :) [...]
