I found this tip on Chris Sells' blog - it's a very cool idea that should be hard-wired into every e-mail app.

Saving Your Career

Fri, Feb 7, 2003

In response to Never Send An Email In Anger, Lars Bergstrom recommended that I set up a rule that defers sending an email for 1 minute. I set it for 2 minutes under Outlook XP like so:

* Tools->Rules Wizard
* New
* Start From A Blank Rule
* Check messages after sending
* Which condition(s) do you want to check? -> None
* This rule will be applied to every message you send. Is this correct? -> Yes
* What do you want to do with this message? -> defer delivery by a number of minutes
* a number of minutes -> 2
* Finish

And it works like a charm. It's always w/in the first second that I wish I could recall a message, so two minutes should be more than enough. Wahoo!