Friday, July 29, 2005

Don't recall an email

I am always surprised at the stupidity of people who, presumably using Outlook, send a message to everyone in their address books (which can include things like mailing lists or people who don't care,) and let them know that they're out of the office, or they're having a bake sale this weekend, or they're no longer with the company. Those initial mis-sent emails are annoying enough.

But then, invariably, a few minutes later the person realizes how dumb they were, and sees that Outlook lets them recall the message! Success! They can unwind their dumb mistake, and no one will know they're an idiot.

Wrong again!

For people who aren't using their Outlook/Exchange setup, we get this kind, polite message:

Albert Eddie Contractor AFRPA/ESS would like to recall the message, "Moving phone service this weekend".
So, instead of getting one message I never cared about, I get two! Brilliant!
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Marc said...

Even better is that when you are using Lookout on top of Exchange, if you have already read the original message, you get the same "some stupid id10t wants to recall a message." It only works if you don't read the original, but of course it doesn't happen behind the scenes, either--it's a Lookout processing thing, not an exchange server processing thing.

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