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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. I smell spam from the grave by evenSong · · Score: 5, Funny

    So how do we prosecute these dead guys?

  2. Spam! by wviperw · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It has GOT to suck when you miss one of these because it got sent to the spam folder and deleted.

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  3. People tend to last longer than dot-coms. by McDutchie · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Who is going to guarantee that the company in question won't go belly-up before you do?

    1. 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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  4. Re:mine's gonna read by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You got it all wrong this story is back from the grave...

  5. 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. :-)

  6. My dear PHB by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear Boss,

    Now that I am dead, I can say anything I want without getting fired.

    You are a horses ass. No, wait. You are a bleeding hemmoroid of a horses ass. You steal everybody's ideas, you read stupid magazines and then follow every management fad known to man. You don't listen to my warnings and then blame me when the warning comes true.

    You hold meetings just so you can be the head cheese, but you say nothing and know nothing of importance.

    Further, your kids are ugly and stupid, just like their father. And, a similar email has just told your wife about that affair you had with Lisa.

    See ya in hell, Mike the Corpse.

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  7. And mine would say... by itistoday · · Score: 5, Funny

    I told you the vogons were coming!

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  8. o.b. Python by SkippyTPE · · Score: 5, Funny

    King Arthur : Look if he was dying he wouldn't have bothered to carve 'Aaaaauuuggghhh' on the rock he would of just said it.
    Galahad : Maybe he was dictating?
    King Arthur : Oh Shut up.
    King Arthur : Well does it say anything else?
    Brother Maynard : No, just 'Aaaaauuuugggghhh'
    [knights making groaning sounds]
    Sir Bedevere : Do you think he could have mean, 'Camaaaauuuuggghhhh'?
    Galahad : Where's that?
    Sir Bedevere : France I think.
    Sir Lancelot : Isn't there a Saint 'Iiiiivvvveeeesss' in Condor?
    King Arthur : No that's Saint 'Ives'
    Sir Bedevere : Whooooouuuuaaa!
    Sir Lancelot : No it's 'Aaaaauuuugggghhhh' from the back of the throat.
    Sir Bedevere : No I mean, 'Whoooouuuuaaa!' as in surprise and alarm.
    Sir Lancelot : Oh you mean like, 'Auuuuhhhhh!'
    Sir Bedevere : Yes that's it. Auuuuuhhhhhaaa!
    Sir Lancelot : Auuuuhhhhhaaa!
    Brother Maynard : It's the legendary black beast of Aaaaauuuugghhhh!
    King Arthur : Run Away! RUN AWAY!
    Sir Lancelot : RUN AWAY!

  9. Do you really want to do this? by waynemcdougall · · Score: 5, Funny
    This function allows you to test the mail system, and will act as if your death was confirmed. BE VERY CAREFUL AS ALL OF THE MAIL MESSAGES YOU HAVE COMPOSED WILL BE REALLY SENT IF YOU GO ALONG WITH THIS?

    Are you sure you don't want to not run the test or are you not sure?

    [Yes] [No]
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  10. 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.

    crib

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  11. Re:Mine is going to read... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    and mine would be like:

    He guys,
    if you got this Mail I have left the country. They will properly tell you about my dead, but I tell you now: I AM NOT! It's just a trick to escape the IRS...

    Imaging, I would be like Elvis, every time someone is talking about my dead someone will deny it... ;-)

  12. Re:Mine is going to read... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    LAST POST!!1!11

  13. How about this? by reboot246 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mine would have a really nasty virus attached to it and a note that says, "Now you can fix your own damned computer!"