PSA

[hootymcboob]

This article about Livejournal from Wired makes me laugh

Comments

[snatchcarrie]

That article was awesome.

How does one recall an email?

[hootymcboob]

It's an MS Outlook feature. We have our mail at work stored on a Microsoft Exchange Server, so if you use the Recall action on an email you've sent and it's still sitting on the server unopened, then it can delete it before the recipient sees it.

If a user has opened it then it doesn't get recalled though, and they get a notice saying that you tried to recall it.

[fweebles]

I"ve never had recall work with any sort of reliable accuracy...most of the time I've tried to use it fails whether the other person's read it or not.

[hootymcboob]

It worked for me (5 out of 6 people) and the last one gets his mail downloaded to his blackberry or something, so I think it wasn't actually on the server anymore when I tried.