Not Life After Death -- Email After Death 312
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.'"
SEL? (Score:3, Informative)
Isn't this the same as a statement in a will? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Mine is going to read... (Score:4, Informative)
It's A Dupe (Score:4, Informative)
And no, I don't go checking for these things. I have a good memory.
Re:I smell spam from the grave (Score:5, Informative)
I smell spam from the grave
What a coincidence! I smell a dupe [slashdot.org] 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?
The article forgot the link !!!! (Score:5, Informative)
5mb? (Score:2, Informative)
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.
Yes, it's a dupe, MOD PARENT UP (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Heard it before (Score:2, Informative)
Data will last FOREVER, as long as a medium exists to transfer it to. Forever beats 100 years.
Re:SEL? (Score:2, Informative)
Serial Experiment Lain was a televised Japanese anime from the late 90s, wherin recently-suicided schoolkids carried on email correspondence with classmates (often invitations to "Join me, here with God")
. . . again? (Score:4, Informative)
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Re:People tend to last longer than dot-coms. (Score:3, Informative)
I've had five different street addresses in the past seven years -- and still just the one e-mail address...
Re:"strict privacy"? (Score:3, Informative)
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