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Not Life After Death -- Email After Death

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the anubis-as-mail-admin dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:People tend to last longer than dot-coms. by Lithus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not only can the company cease to exist, but the target address of the email itself may do so as well.
    People can often go through many email addresses in the time it takes a company to collapse.

  2. Life-or-death typos by jstanforth · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's all fine and good until a jr. sys admin mistypes an account ID and accidentally sends out your final emails before you're dead... either to your enemies, as suggested (thereby now contributing to your death at their hands), or to your ex-girlfriends (just making you wish you were dead). So yeah, caveat emptor and all that. :-)

  3. "strict privacy"? by linuxhansl · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Strict privacy is guaranteed by powerful encryption algorithms and a personal password of 128-bits to which only the client, and not the Web site, has access.

    I call "bullshit", how are they going to release the email if they do not have access to its content?
    Of course the "Web site" has access.

  4. Re:People tend to last longer than dot-coms. by Red+Alastor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why don't a company send them by snail mail. It takes longer to reach the destination but it doesn't matter since you are dead. And your street address change less often than your e-mail address.

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  5. Quote of the Day by cribcage · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "People find computers more intimate and private than letters and they feel freer to say things this way," said Iriarte, a Pamplona-born computer engineer.
    More intimate and private. [rolls eyes]

    Jesus. These people deserve to get bilked out of their money.

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  6. Finally, a service with common sense. by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In the internet era, our friends CAN'T know that we died. They'll just start wondering what happened when they didn't see us online.

    This has bothered me for YEARS. What happens if I die? What happens to my webpages? My online friends? What will happen to the friend that maybe needed my help and didn't know I was gone for good?

    In your home they'll know you're gone, but thousands of miles away?

    Bravo for this service. I think it's really needed now.