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Send Emails After Your Death

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the packets-from-beyond-the-grave dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "As you all know, the two things in life you can't avoid are taxes and death. But if you will no longer have to pay taxes after your death, you will be able to send email thanks to a new service, Mylastemail.com. The Los Angeles Times (free registration needed) says this service will cost you $9.99 for a three-year subscription. The company says you can update your farewell messages from anywhere in the world, including cybercafes or airports." If it's not a hoax, it's a pretty cool service.

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  1. Re:BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    harsh...

  2. my uncle is a moron by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is a small complaint about damned uninformed relatives that I HAVE to share with the world cos I want to scream

    An unnamed relative of mine... no fuck that it's my uncle kevin... had been sending me the same email over and over since july, when he got his first computer, and my cousin set it up for him. Turns out he thinks he was sending new emails to his family & friends. Nope, still the same junk forward, a powerpoint file called "Road rules for drunks" with some inane shit about road rules for driving if you're drunk, the kind of shit that the world forwards on the the rest of the world all the goddamned time. One after another, every week or so they'd appear.

    Now I'm a helpful type, so I volunteered to fix this. More to the point I was sick of getting huge .ppt documents in my inbox. I rock up to his place and find out he's NOT actually forwarding on the same ppt file. He was:

    1. opening an existing ppt file, the original "road rules for drunks" powerpoint document
    2. creating a new page and typing his email in that, and inserting pictures if he wanted to send pictures
    3. saving it
    4. sending THAT newly edited file to about ten of us.

    His inbox had loads of replies with "stop sending me this shit you've already sent it before!". admittedly most were mine.

    Yes, the powerpoint document contained EVERY FUCKING EMAIL HE'D SENT AND EVERY PICTURE HE'D ATTACHED.

    So, 2 hours of explaining later, I show him how to start off a brand new email. How to reply to emails. How to select relevant parts for quoting, how to email sensibly, lightly and properly in plain text. He gets it right, he sends emails, he attaches images, and seems to have picked it up quickly. I feel happy. I've solved a problem and grabbed a few free beers while at it

    I go back home, and the very next day he sends me an email - a thank you note mentioning how grateful he was I helped him, and is embarassed he was doing it so stupidly before.

    The kicker? He wrote it, again, in the powerpoint document. Road rules for drunks. at the end. and sent it to me as an attachment, a 7MB attachment.

    I want to cry

  3. grave communications deficit notedead? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you won't be needing any phonIE payper devices to communicate with every life form in the universe?

    that's right, this stuff is unbreakable, wwworks on several (more than 3) dimensions, & requires no 'BiG scIEnce' FUnDing.

    'big science' will have to 'discover' it's conscience before it can tap into this stuff.

    Two programs got the nod, so far. The top priority is planet/population rescue. Other goals mandated include the permanent disempowerment of unprecedented evile, & assurance that the planet/population is around to enjoy the gnu millennium of open/honest communications/commerce. Your grandchildren will survive to produce additional uses for the powers that are rescuing us from the greed/fear/ego based life0cide, as the lights come up...

    consult with/trust in yOUR creator... get ready to see the light. there's never a cover charge/subscription fee. see you there? tell 'em robbIE?

    even more corepirate nazi schemes eXPosed?

    & what dispositions are to be considered for the felonious payper liesense softwar gangsters as they are rendered invalid, & more&more of their phonIE stock markup scams are known? maybe they'll 'release' linus, & put fuddles et ALL, in prison.

    then, let's say fuddles IS the greed/fear/ego based massturdmined softwar gangster bankrolling the phonIE ?pr? ?firm? scriptdead attacks on the hobbyist dogooders. can we say fud wants more, has a conscience deficit, & no regard for the public/his hostages? we could easily say that.

    talk about fauxking wags?

    nothing gnu about this phonIE ?pr? ?firm? softwar gangster scriptdead crud:

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8& oe =UTF-8&q=microsoft+%22bill+weisgerber%22&btnG=Goog le+Search

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8& oe =UTF-8&q=microsoft+%22sanjay+ahuja%22&btnG=Google+ Search

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8& oe =UTF-8&q=microsoft+attacks+linux+open+source&btnG= Google+Search

    wag on at: http://www.trustworthycomputing.com

    felonious softwar gangster execrable hired goons?

    what else could it be?

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  5. cron! :-p by FUF · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    pfft.. who needs this when we have cron!?!?

  6. Darl McBride's Last Email by R33MSpec · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is too good not to post, Enjoy!
    Source: article

    YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE REQUIRED

    DEAR SIR/MADAM:

    I AM MR DARL MCBRIDE CURRENTLY SERVING AS THE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE SCO GROUP, FORMERLY KNOWN AS CALDERA SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, IN LINDON, UTAH, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I KNOW THIS LETTER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU BECAUSE WE HAVE HAD NO PREVIOUS COMMUNICATIONS OR BUSINESS DEALINGS BEFORE NOW.

    MY ASSOCIATES HAVE RECENTLY MADE CLAIM TO COMPUTER SOFTWARES [sic] WORTH AN ESTIMATED $1 BILLION U.S. DOLLARS. I AM WRITING TO YOU IN CONFIDENCE BECAUSE WE URGENTLY REQUIRE YOUR ASSISTANCE TO OBTAIN THESE FUNDS. ...

    MY ASSOCIATES AND I OF THE SCO GROUP ARE ... THE FULL AND RIGHTFUL OWNERS OF THE OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARES KNOWN AS UNIX. OUR ENGINEERS HAVE DISCOVERED THAT NO FEWER THAN SEVENTY (70) LINES OF OUR VALUABLE AND PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODES HAVE APPEARED IN THE UPSTART OPERATING SYSTEM LINUX. ... THIS GIVES US A CLAIM ON THE MILLIONS OF LINES OF VALUABLE SOFTWARE CODES WHICH COMPRISE THIS LINUX AND WHICH HAS BEEN SOLD AT GREAT PROFIT TO VERY MANY BUSINESS ENTERPRISES. OUR LEGAL EXPERTS HAVE ADVISED US THAT OUR CONTRIBUTION TO THESE CODES IS WORTH AN ESTIMATED ONE (1) BILLION U.S. DOLLARS. ...

    I HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE MANDATE BY MY COLLEAGUES TO CONTACT YOU AND ASK FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE. WE ARE PREPARED TO SELL YOU A SHARE IN THIS ENTERPRISE, WHICH WILL SOON BE VERY PROFITABLE, THAT WILL GRANT YOU THE RIGHTS TO USE THESE VALUABLE SOFTWARES. ... IT IS OUR RESPECTFUL SUGGESTION, THAT YOU MAY BE IMMEDIATELY A PARTY TO THIS ENTERPRISE, BEFORE OTHERS ACCEPT THESE LUCRATIVE TERMS, THAT YOU SEND US THE NUMBER OF A BANKING ACCOUNT WHERE WE CAN WITHDRAW FUNDS OF A SUITABLE AMOUNT TO GUARANTEE YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THIS ENTERPRISE. AS AN ALTERNATIVE YOU MAY SEND US THE NUMBER AND EXPIRATION DATE OF YOUR MAJOR CREDIT CARD, OR YOU MAY SEND TO US A SIGNED CHECK FROM YOUR BANKING ACCOUNT PAYABLE TO "SCO GROUP" AND WITH THE AMOUNT LEFT BLANK FOR US TO CONVENIENTLY SUPPLY.

    KINDLY TREAT THIS REQUEST AS VERY IMPORTANT AND STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL. I HONESTLY ASSURE YOU THAT THIS TRANSACTION IS 100% LEGAL AND RISK-FREE.