I don't know if this will work there are so many ways around sending the e-mail. Drunk a person can still answer the questions or change the setting. On the other hand if it stops just one drunk e-mail it is worth it. Plus this is just a funny setting.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Mail Goggles: A breathalyzer test for your Gmail
Google mail has come out with a new invention in which at certain times of the night you will not be able to send an e-mail without answering a few math questions. This new idea will hopefully prevent sender to write friends e-mails in a drunk state. The mail goggles is installed by going to the "Lab" tab under your Gmail setting and turning them on. You can adjust the time as well as the difficulty of the questions. If you get the question wrong Mail goggle will tell you "Water and bed, or try again." In case you are sober and you just set the math difficulties too high then the best option is just turing off the settings all together.
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I had just read this article, and thought it was very funny. It is good that there is an option to turn it on or not, because some people just aren't good at math, and there are just errors that people make with typos.
Haha, that's great. It doesn't seem like a very practical setting, but indeed funny. Depending on the difficulty of the math and how drunk the person is, though, it might not prevent drunk emails. (Probably the most drunken of emails, but not the mildly drunken emails.)
I think google is brilliant. This is not the bests of ideas from them. I would hope this is just an option, I dont send drunk emails.
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Ryan Wettlaufer
I thought this article was very funny. I think a great deal of people will use this application and Google really thinks up the most random idea.
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