l'espirit d'escalier only in reverse

[kalmn]

i hate it when you write an email and you think about it carefully and you reread it and you hit send and then you think of sixteen ways in which you were an idiot in those paragraphs.

ah, well.

Comments

[luno]

Not that I'd know from personal experience or anything...

It seems to happen much more frequently when the subject matter (or the recipient) is of great importance.

[aedifica]

Or when one composes the email while sleepy.

[vito_excalibur]

Oh god yes. :/

[elusis]

Gmail has an "undo" feature that presents for a few seconds after you hit "send" if you enable it in Labs. Not a long window of opportunity but it has helped me a couple of times.

[jesse_the_k]

I want to install a delayed "send" command. The first time I use it, the mail would be saved (but not sent) in a special folder. Then a user-specifiable interval later, the text would pop up again for review. I'd have to issue the send command again to actually dispatch the message. I could choose an address group which required the two-step, staircase-spirited procedure, for things like listservs and committees.

[elizabethth.livejournal.com]

This is why it takes me about 45 minutes to email a friend about getting together for lunch . . .