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You wouldn't sign an email with "Also, I'm drunk right now" but that's effectively what you've done here. Kudos for honesty, but you've now put a time stamp th

You wouldn't sign an email with "Also, I'm drunk right now" but that's effectively what you've done here. Kudos for honesty, but you've now put a time stamp that says, roughly, "I acknowledge being under the influence on Nov 27 2011, and further, this allowed me to behave differently than I normally would." Anyone you've interacted with today can go back to it. It's not just that you might be making bad decisions - you are publicly acknowledging that those decisions were made while drunk.

frobozz 15y ago
I think that the advice "Don't hit send until the next morning" is sound not only for post-booze emailing, but for anything done late in the day. Driving whilst overly tired (for example) is known to pose similar risks to driving under the influence of alcohol. Although mmaunder has only mentioned holding off on emails due to drink, there are many other reasons why one might author an email one evening, but not send it in the morning (e.g. the need to check a fact with someone who has already gone to bed or is otherwise unavailable). That mmaunder was drunk is not an conclusion that can inevitably and reliably be drawn from such a timestamp.
xiaoma 15y ago
Why is this significant? Alcohol can affect judgement, but so can fatigue, depression or lust. We're humans. Our brains are housed in our bodies and we have to make decisions under all kinds of physical influences all the time. Barring being in a fanatical teetotaler culture, why does it matter that there's a record of him writing an email while moderately drunk? Business gets done in bars, lounges and karaoke places all over the world. It's not like he made a spontaneous marriage proposal or signed up for the military. It was just a damned email, and a satisfactory one at that.

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You wouldn't sign an email with "Also, I'm drunk right now" but that's effectively what you've done here. Kudos for honesty, but you've now put a time stamp th

by kevinalexbrown 15y ago

frobozz 15y ago
I think that the advice "Don't hit send until the next morning" is sound not only for post-booze emailing, but for anything done late in the day. Driving whilst overly tired (for example) is known to pose similar risks to driving under the influence of alcohol. Although mmaunder has only mentioned holding off on emails due to drink, there are many other reasons why one might author an email one evening, but not send it in the morning (e.g. the need to check a fact with someone who has already gone to bed or is otherwise unavailable). That mmaunder was drunk is not an conclusion that can inevitably and reliably be drawn from such a timestamp.
xiaoma 15y ago
Why is this significant? Alcohol can affect judgement, but so can fatigue, depression or lust. We're humans. Our brains are housed in our bodies and we have to make decisions under all kinds of physical influences all the time. Barring being in a fanatical teetotaler culture, why does it matter that there's a record of him writing an email while moderately drunk? Business gets done in bars, lounges and karaoke places all over the world. It's not like he made a spontaneous marriage proposal or signed up for the military. It was just a damned email, and a satisfactory one at that.