“You are about to hit your thumb. Continue? Yes / No”

:-P Just kidding.

I agree that it can be annoying too, but it is true that almost once a week I receive an email saying “sorry, here’s the document”. So, as you can deactivate the paperclip in word if you don’t like it, you could have that option in Gmail as well. Then, users decide.

Ain’t we starting to go down a slippery track?

I mean, this kind of pseudo-intelligent behaviour, when used in excess, is what we’ve all learned to hate from Microsoft Office –remember that hideous paperclip saying “It looks like you’re trying to write a letter”?

You seem happy with the advantages of this kind of features, but keep in mind the disadvantages:

- the annoyance of “false positives”: this thing might possibly be triggered by messages such as “You forgot to attach the file!”

- Users might get used to the feature so they will learn to pay less attention to not forgetting attachments, thus becoming more vulnerable to “false negatives” in situations such as the one described by Pi.

Myself, I’m not too fond of features that rely on natural language processing, except for batch processing of massive amounts of information (such as spam filtering). As I see it, simplicity and reliability must come together, i.e. simplicity gains must not be exchanged for reliability losses. One of the things I love about my hammer is that it never fails to hit things. It doesn’t turn out to unscrew things one in twenty times. If it would, that lack of reliability would add complexity to the task of using it.

I’m not using it anymore, but it was configurable, so you could decide your own attachment reminder keywords. That could solve most of the cases, even like Pi’s examples.

I can’t remember well, but I think signature was not parsed, so no problem for “directores adjuntos” :-)

Muy bueno el comentario anterior. “Director adjunto” jajaja :-)

They copied this Mail.app plugin. I’ve been using it for some time and don’t have enough nice words for it. As a bonus, it works with a lot of languages simultaneously, which is cool if you write in english and spanish from the same account : )