IP: sel-destruct email

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 15:56:03 -0400
> From: "John Parmater" <jparmate () columbus rr com>
> To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
>
> 'Self-destruct' e-mail offers virtual privacy
>
> By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY
> Conventional Internet wisdom says e-mail is forever, copied and 
> stored on the sender's and recipient's PCs and any number of 
> computers it passed through on the way.
>
> That might change soon. Disappearing Inc., a small start-up firm in 
> San Francisco, has devised e-mail that self-destructs, Mission: 
> Impossible style.
>
> "The idea that you can send a message and have it evaporate 
> downstream gets at a lot of the problems with e-mail," says Kerry 
> Stackpole of the Electronic Messaging Association, a trade group. "I 
> can't imagine people wouldn't use it."
>
> snipped
>
> http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/crg441.htm
>
> --
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>
> John Parmater
>
> jparmate () Columbus rr com
>
> Never underestimate the power of inspiration.