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I can see too many possibly evil uses for this sort of thing and I can see spam growing in leaps and bounds. Can't print it? An expiration date? No evidence at all except the subject line.
I don't think I like this idea at all. On the outside and for those with harmless intent, the idea of being able to recall a message sent in error ... great. But the way they've developed it, I can see spammers salivating!
Nope ... big thumbs down here. :(
The e-mail management service allows users to change an e-mail after the message is sent, altering content, adding an attachment, or deleting it altogether. Emphasis added by me.Hmmmmm. Management Service.
Not good. Too many variable with the service itself. Hacks, Corrupt Employees, etc.
I'm not too clear on how the messages could be altered once they've been transmitted unless there is an ever present tag, or connection to the message itself. Such to say, the message is always connected to the sending server?
The message is stored on BigString's server. The recipient is sent an HTML e-mail containing a link to the content on the server.
The sender can therefore edit the message while it's on BigString's server.
I don't like the idea myself; I generally block external HTML content in e-mails, in order to stop tracking bugs in spam.
I'm actually opposed to this faciliy as a result of something that happened to me with internet email. I broke off a relationship with a female friend by email, and regretted sending the email a second (or less) after I'd done it. I wished I had the facility to recall it. But, following certain events which occurred soon after (and which revealed certain aspects of her character I hadn't been aware of) I was sooooo relieved that I hadn't been able to recall the message.
Sometimes its good not to be able to have second thoughts.
Well how many times have you sent an email and regretted it?
Not often. Really I think that's one of the best things about email... you can read, re-read and edit it as many times as you want before you send it, unlike a face-to-face conversation with the ever-present danger of sticking your foot in your mouth.
Really, I think anything that encourages people to put less forethought into their actions, and become any more impulsive and unthinking is a bad thing.
If you're sending an email about a sensitive subject, you have all the time in the world to re-think it before you hit send.
Imagine threatening someone via e:mail and the recipient not being able to prove to the police that it ever existed. I think this should be shut down immediately.
Think of what terrorists could do with this sort of thing? This isn't just a bad idea ... its a very, very bad idea which should be made illegal.
After all, the government doesn't let you dive into a post box to retrieve a letter you just posted. Once sent, it belongs to the recipient.
if all revisions are marked, like the tracking system built into most word processors.
So, you can add info or remove info from an email I read yesterday - but it just gets struck through or added in another colour.
