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Not Life After Death -- Email After Death
Rick Zeman writes "Wanna send that one last email after you're dead and gone? CNN has an article about a service that will give the 21st century equivalent to a old-fashioned note in a drawer except that this could be more targeted '...by offering people the chance to write one last e-mail, complete with video clip or photo attachments, and send it to loved ones, friends or even enemies after the person who wrote it is dead.'"
Serial Experiments Lain anyone?
Creative Demolition
A statement or decree in a will to email certain people would serve the same purpose, I would think, plus it would legally mandate the email be sent (the service could forget that the person died and not send it).
US businesses that currently accept chip and PIN/signature
wasnt this on /. a while back as well. jebus. and i dont even believe in jebus.
And no, I don't go checking for these things. I have a good memory.
I smell spam from the grave
What a coincidence! I smell a dupe from the past!
Well, to be fair to the Slashdot editors, it's not *really* a dupe - this service is offered by a different company. But how different and original can you get with posthumous email services?
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
The actual link to the service is thelastemail.
199.99 ?/Lifetime Enrollmen
You receive 5 MB of space
http://www.thelastemail.com/plans.aspx (aspx, BLEAH!)
When the webspace prices go down... find a clever way to sell 5MBs at high price.
it would be much cheaper, or even free, to set-up a password-protected website. Then write a script so that the website will be automatically unprotected when you fail for 2 days to send a specially formatted email to a special secret email address.
simple, cheap and creative.
I remember that story too! Fortunately I'm not the only one, and it appears you beat me to the punch :)
Forever > 100 years
Data will last FOREVER, as long as a medium exists to transfer it to. Forever beats 100 years.
If you build it, nerds will come. Soylentnews.org
When is this no longer going to be a news story?
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On September 25th, 2004 with 194 comments
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And your street address change less often than your e-mail address.
I've had five different street addresses in the past seven years -- and still just the one e-mail address...
Read the FAQ:
A portion of the authentication key is sent to you, and it will be necessary for someone you have entrusted to activate your account after you pass away. The Last Email administrator will not have the ability to access your emails because three pieces of information are required to access the account, your username; password; and your authentication key. You are the only person who ever has access to all of this information.
Not that I really care, but anyway...
Fh