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raccoon

(30,985 posts)
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 07:43 AM Aug 2012

Poetry lesson for today. (Please read, this could be very important in your life.)

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.


---The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

What it means:

Once you have sent an email, you can’t undo it. No matter if you do a “Recall” and it’s successful. Its ghost is still out there somewhere, somebody could’ve read it/saved it, in the nanosecond between your SEND and your RECALL. Someone probably did.

What THAT means, in practical terms:

Think carefully before you hit SEND.
Poetry lesson for today. (Please read, this could be very important in your life.) (Original Post) raccoon Aug 2012 OP
What is this bullshit? HopeHoops Aug 2012 #1
One of the biggest failings of computer design over all these years... MiddleFingerMom Aug 2012 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author rug Aug 2012 #3

MiddleFingerMom

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2. One of the biggest failings of computer design over all these years...
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 08:18 AM
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... is the inexplicable failure to incorporate a functional "OHSHIT!!!" button into the keyboaard.
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