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Eudora had this awesome feature that detected if you were about to send a flame / testy short reply, and warned you against it. I seem to remember a “spicy pep
by samcheng 8y ago
Eudora had this awesome feature that detected if you were about to send a flame / testy short reply, and warned you against it. I seem to remember a “spicy pepper” icon? It saved me from embarrassment more than once. I hope the modern email client maintainers can rescue that bit of functionality.
- AbacusAvenger 8y agoOh yeah, I remember that! I think they called it "MoodWatch" or something. If I recall right, it gave a live measurement of the composition, so you didn't even have to send an email to play with it. It had a scale of one to three or five peppers or something like that. I remember playing with it and trying to figure out what kind of language warranted the largest number of peppers. I do miss that functionality. And it could probably be better implemented today. I think the original feature just checked for a specific set of words and phrases in a blacklist. These days one could probably make a plugin that reasoned about the tone of the content, not just on word choice but also on sentence structure.
- jefurii 8y agoThe nice thing about this function was that it was local -- it didn't transmit your thoughts to some outside entity for evaluation. Can't remember if you could tweak the criteria by which it calculated the peppers but whatever, this is the essence of having control over your technology.