Google just announced a new Google Labs feature called "Got the Wrong Bob?" This new feature is designed to keep you from emailing the wrong Bob, or Mike, or Sam, or whoever.
It can help you avoid embarrassments like sending settlement info to a reporter instead of another lawyer. Of course, that was Outlook and Exchange, not Gmail. And the new features works by associating groups of people together, so it doesn't work if you're emailing just one.
Here's how the feature works:
If you normally email Bob Smith together with Tim and Angela, but this time you added Bob Jones instead, we'll warn you that it might be a mistake. Note that this only works if you're emailing more than two people at once.Consider it another check by Gmail to be sure that people don't do someting stupid, like "Undo Send," and "Mail Goggles."
While we were at it, we also changed the name of "Suggest more recipients" to "Don't forget Bob" — the two related Labs features just kind of went together better this way.
Undo Send, I've used a few times. Mail Goggles, never. This one, not so sure, but I'm guessing that Eli Lilly lawyer wishes he had something like this for Outlook.