The one good thing AOL had going for it...

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Many moons ago, when the world was new and I was but a wee Swiddle, I fell into the nieve trap of subscribing to AOL. The WWW was new and shiney and I didn’t know any better. Before I wised up and got free email from my school, I did become dependant on the AOL feature where you can check to see if email sent from one AOL user to another had been read and if not, you could unsend it. I really miss that feature, especially after the wine-assisted over-emotional email I sent to my ex-boyfriend last night.

So I got to thinking. Aside from firewalls and stuff, how hard would it be to set something like that up in the real internet? Do individual emails get something like an ISP number, and can you track that? And does anyone with a gift for software design and networking want to get on that before Ex-boyfriend reads said email? Please?

Honestly, I just want to make the world and the internet a more [stalker] convenient place.

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In theory, any ISP could support unsend requests, but most don’t. Who knows? That might become a standard feature in the near future.

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I know that we can do that with (internal) email at work, where they use Outlook. Don’t know if we can do it to emails sent outside the company or not.

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There has been many a time I wished for an “undo” button for email. Alcohol+sentimentality does not equal “witty” or “heartfelt” missives.

sigh

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I loved that too. The voicemail system at my school worked like that too, which I took advantage of on many occasions.

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Hey, Kat: where in Outlook is the option to do that? Of course, it won’t help for this particular email problem, but I wonder if I can do it internally within my domain.

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In the Sent Items folder, Swimming, locate your message. Double click it to open it and access the Action menu. There, select Recall this message.

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Don’t forget the best thing AOL ever had going for it. It was the original home of the Straight Dope site and this message board.

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I, too, have really, really missed this feature after my departure from AOL. Of course, even in AOL if you sent the mail to any POP3 account you couldn’t unsend.

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I have AOL, and I never knew you could do that . . .

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Luckily I tend to forget my passwords when under the influence, so some of my more “misguided” e-mail attemps never see the light of day.

egg

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Could have been worse. . .

It could have been a drunken phone call to your ex. . .

Not that I’ve ever done that. . . :rolleyes:

Tripler
O Tequila, how you mock me. . .