Emailing Under Influence ? Mail Googles Is Your Savior !

Ok, I know at least 7 people (myself included) who should be using this new feature that google’s gmail has introduced. It is called ‘Mail Googles‘ and it prevents the email account user from accidentally shooting off an email in the spur of the moment, or in an inebriated state (read while under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or hallucinogens).

Mail Googles can be enabled in your gmail account in the Settings -> Labs section. In the settings for Mail googles, you can specify the Days and the time range during which you want gmail to enable the Mail googles feature.

Once enabled, if you are writing an email during the date-time range you specified in the settings, if you attempt to send the email, you will be prompted with a popup that will ask you to answer simple math questions. The popup will also include a timed delay. The idea is to make you stop for a few seconds and think. During this time, hopefully you will snap out of whatever it is that prompted you to type off the email, and make an informed decision whether to go ahead and send it anyway, or to cancel the send in favor of damage control.

Neat feature no doubt. But are you (like me) wondering what happens to those users who are mathematically challenged ?