May 24, 2001
E-mail/Web page recall
A WORD uttered once cannot be taken back. This irreversibility is not restricted to the real world and is even more crucial in the digital world, where you have little control once you part with your valuable digital contents.
Every one knows that once you press the Send button of an e-mail client, your role in the message delivered through the e-mail route is over. You cannot call it back, if you realise later that it is addressed to a wrong recipient; or you feel that some alterations have to be made in the message.
Every one knows that once you press the Send button of an e-mail client, your role in the message delivered through the e-mail route is over. You cannot call it back, if you realise later that it is addressed to a wrong recipient; or you feel that some alterations have to be made in the message.