Archive for October 8th, 2008
All the Mail I Never Sent
The Draft Messages folder in your mail client has a wonderful ability to save you from embarassing yourself. Saving a message and then coming back to it the next day is the best way to check whether you really meant to be quite that forceful, laid-back, flirtatious, or whatever.
If you think better of hitting “Send,” what you’re left with is messages that Went Unsaid. This site is a place to post these emails (suitably anonymised, of course) to share your potential embarrassment with the world. Maybe there was something you wish you’d said later that’s still kicking around your inbox, waiting for an airing. Maybe there’s something you’re really glad you didn’t send, but is still there because you just never got round to dealing with it.
If that describes anything you’ve got (that you wrote, please - no airing of other peoples’ dirty laundry here), post it here. I can’t see any identifying information that you don’t give me; I don’t get email addresses or anything like that unless you give it to me, so be ruthless. I’ll publish your mail in as complete a form as I can, so don’t rely on me to catch anything you leave in there!
Needless to say, this idea owes a lot to the wonderful PostSecret. See it if you haven’t already. You owe it to yourself.