There is a setting in Outlook that can prevent so many embarrassments. You can create a rule that defers the delivery of messages by any number of minutes. The mail just sits in your Outbox, and if you remember/realize something after you hit send, you can then open and edit it before it actually goes. It’s kept me from the silly mistakes like forgotten attachments, belated realizations about the cc: list, and awkward spellcheck corrections. Just now, it saved me from calling someone “Kuntz,” which I imagine would not have been appreciated.

Unrelated, why would Outlook make that change? I know it’s a real last name, but come on…

Sorry for the unusually pragmatic post. No worries—I’ll now return to exhortatoria, cryptica, apocrypha, pseudepigraha, and my typical trick-box of loveable philological arcana.