New email confirmation dialogs

Monday, 9th May 2011
This morning I came across this posting on a FreeBSD mail archive. I can't help thinking Microsofts' Outlook Express could be vastly improved if only these subjections were implemented...
But let me suggest a few pop-up windows I would like to see mail-programs implement whenever people send or reply to email to the lists they want me to subscribe to:
+------------------------------------------------------------+
| Your email is about to be sent to several hundred thousand |
| people, who will have to spend at least 10 seconds reading |
| it before they can decide if it is interesting.  At least  |
| two man-weeks will be spent reading your email.  Many of   |
| the recipients will have to pay to download your email.    |
|                                                            |
| Are you absolutely sure that your email is of sufficient   |
| importance to bother all these people ?                    |
|                                                            |
|                  [YES]  [REVISE]  [CANCEL]                 |
+------------------------------------------------------------+

+------------------------------------------------------------+
|  Warning:  You have not read all emails in this thread yet.|
|  Somebody else may already have said what you are about to |
|  say in your reply.  Please read the entire thread before  |
|  replying to any email in it.                              |
|                                                            |
|                          [CANCEL]                          |
+------------------------------------------------------------+

+------------------------------------------------------------+
|  Warning:  Your mail program have not even shown you the   |
|  entire message yet.  Logically it follows that you cannot |
|  possibly have read it all and understood it.              |
|                                                            |
|  It is not polite to reply to an email until you have      |
|  read it all and thought about it.                         |
|                                                            |
| A cool off timer for this thread will prevent you from     |
| replying to any email in this thread for the next one hour |
|                                                            |
|                          [CANCEL]                          |
+------------------------------------------------------------+

+------------------------------------------------------------+
| You composed this email at a rate of more than N.NN cps    |
| It is generally not possible to think and type at a rate   |
| faster than A.AA cps, and therefore you reply is likely to |
| incoherent, badly thought out and/or emotional.            |
|                                                            |
| A cool off timer will prevent you from sending any email   |
| for the next one hour.                                     |
|                                                            |
|                          [CANCEL]                          |
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