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Gmail's "Got the wrong Bob?" helps avoid misfired emails
But there's a downside. Sometimes you'll have more than one contact with the same first name. If you've ever sent a message to the wrong Dave, Jen, or Bob, there's a new Gmail labs feature that can help... sometimes.
The feature is called "Got the wrong Bob?" and it works much like the "Don't forget Bob" feature that was already available in Gmail labs. When the Don't forget feature is enabled, Gmail will pay attention as you start to type a list of email addresses. If that list looks similar to lists of recipients for previous email addresses, it will automatically suggest additional people you may want to include.
Instead of suggesting recipients, Got the wrong Bob will notice if you normally send emails to Paul Simon, Neil Young, and Art Garfunkel and if you accidentally address a new message to Art Vandelay instead of Garfunkel Gmail will ask if you meant to send the message to the other Art.
Of course, there's no way for Gmail to know if you've got the wrong Bob when you're sending a message to a single recipient. But that's why you should really pay more attention to what you're doing in the first place.
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__smooth__ said 7:13AM on 10-14-2009
@BradLinder loved the musical/seinfeld joke. :)
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RUGRLN said 7:21AM on 10-14-2009
Well Windows Live Mail has had this for a long time also...
But the 'Did you mean...' is kinda neat, but not really a necessity...I'd always double check who I'm sending to...and never name a contact with same name.
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Ali Qayyum said 9:02AM on 10-14-2009
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Joel said 2:07PM on 10-14-2009
Seems like a useful feature but unfortunately I don't know anyone named Bob.
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