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By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com Guide to Email

How to Send Mail Later in Windows Mail or Outlook Express

Monday July 6, 2009
Years of training in your fingers, what are you going to do? Hit the pushbuttons as fast as you can, of course.
The new touch tone phone system could not handle the experienced calculator user's fast punching. So phone manufacturers employed a trick: they arranged the digits in reverse order. While calculators had 7-8-9 in their top row, the new telephones moved 1-2-3 on the top.
This is but one theory to explain this oddity, of course, and one unlikely to be true at that. In any event, slowing down deliberately can make sense:
›› Put messages in the Windows Mail or Outlook Express outbox instead of delivering them immediately so you can still edit them before they go off to the recipient.

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