Here's How To Bounce Back Emails Longer Than 50 Words

Dylan Love

Feb 28, 2013, 21:09 IST

This whole idea started with a tweet from Groupon CEO Andrew Mason:

Possible to write a gmail script to autoreply & bounce emails longer than fifty words?

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A short while later, one of Mason's own employees, software engineer Robert Boyd, replied with a solution.

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Boyd created a Gmail script that automatically replies to any email longer than 50 words (or any length of your choosing) with a polite note indicating that only shorter emails will be read.

If you want to take advantage of Boyd's shared work, you only need to copy and paste it into Google Scripts.

His code appears below:

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