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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsPoetry 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 cant undo it. No matter if you do a Recall and its successful. Its ghost is still out there somewhere, somebody couldve 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.
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Poetry lesson for today. (Please read, this could be very important in your life.) (Original Post)
raccoon
Aug 2012
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HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)1. What is this bullshit?
On edit: "D'OH!"
MiddleFingerMom
(25,163 posts)2. One of the biggest failings of computer design over all these years...
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... is the inexplicable failure to incorporate a functional "OHSHIT!!!" button into the keyboaard.
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Response to raccoon (Original post)
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