This was clearly the inspiration for the Google designers of the Android Gmail app. I click Send on an /important/ /time-critical/ message that would have gone immediately on the old Gmail web site, and the app dutifully closes... with not a hint of warning. When one hour later the recipient tells me /the message was not received/, I open the Gmail app... which pops up "Sending...".

The difference is of course that Cecil had three backup cameramen, whereas I trusted Google's /flagship mail app/ so didn't send the same message via three other Google products too... /i /i

Good **ing grief. It is not rocket science.