Gmail Labs: Got the wrong Bob?

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-in-labs-got-wrong-bob.html

by raghus • 17 years ago

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ianbishop• 17 years ago

I bet that bank just let out a 'touché'

aaronz3• 17 years ago

Beat me to it. I wonder how long this has been in development in relation to that story breaking. Unfortunately, I don't believe it would matter in that case as the sender wasn't using Gmail.

aditya• 17 years ago

Wouldn't it make more sense to not autosuggest certain names in the first place in that AJAX drop-down? This kinda feels like they're building a feature to defend against another feature. Perhaps these guys need something else to do?

bmj• 17 years ago

Isn't this typical behavior for an email client? Thunderbird and Outlook do this (auto-suggest). I don't know about other web mail clients, since GMail is the only one I use...

snprbob862• 17 years ago

If you normally mail Bob X and Alice, instead of Bob Y and Alice; however, you frequently mail Bob Y. How would it know if you always type Bob's name first?

JshWright2• 17 years ago

From the post:

"Note that this only works if you're emailing more than two people at once."

If you're just e-mailing Bob (X|Y) it won't care (or help) at all.

ugh• 17 years ago

Sorry, but huh? There are still people on this planet not using auto-complete when writing E-Mail? Auto-complete is not a feature, it’s a must. No need to defend against. Who the hell writes whole E-Mail adresses?

frossie• 17 years ago

There are still people on this planet not using auto-complete when writing E-Mail?

Those of us that use mail aliases? Youngsters these days....

Now if only someone would have a solution to me typing in the wrong IM window :-)

mr_justin• 17 years ago

Darn, I thought this was something to deal with people sending you stuff that was addressed to somebody else they know with the same name and nearly the same email address. I'm not talking about people who have me in their address book, just random people who fat-finger an email address.

scotty79• 17 years ago

I recently mailed short set of logins and passwords to my old customer instead of my current customer. Source of my mistake was that these two people shared both first and last name. Fortunately I felt uneasy and double checked to whom actually I sent the email, and after noticing mistake I promptly changed passwords and sent them to the right guy this time.

jsz0• 17 years ago

My strategy is to do my bitching and backstabbing via IM and use e-mail for legitimate work.

rdoherty• 17 years ago

Thank god. Having a fairly common first and last name, I actually do get an email or two a month addressed to the wrong person. And it's usually addressed to a lot of people.

Although I did kinda enjoy it from a voyeuristic perspective, you'd be surprised what kinds of stuff people email to many of their close friends.

Gmail Labs: Got the wrong Bob?

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