[Coco] OT: Self-modifying email??!!

[billg999 at cs.uofs.edu]

> Thanks, Aaron.  That certainly seems like the most logical
> explanation.  I hadn't realized that images displayed in an email
> message need not reside in the message itself.
>
> This gives me an idea for a great email application for those who
> occasionally experience Sender's Remorse.  Or those with less
> honorable intentions.
>
> The application takes the message you've typed in and turns it into an
> image.  The email is then sent out as a link to an image in a web
> location controlled by the sender.  To the recipient, the image
> appears as ordinary text.

Except that to many people it won't appear at all.  Wmail is a text
medium, not HTML.  Not everyone reads email in a browser.

>
> If the sender later wants to change or delete what he's sent, he just
> changes the content of the image that the sent email points to.
>
> Recipient:  "But you said...."
>
> Sender:  "No, I didn't!  Just look again at the message I sent you!"
>
> (...I could have SWORN he said he's only charging me THIS amount!)
>
> Sort of like the revising of history envisioned by George Orwell in
> '1984'!
>
> Art

Makes as much sense as the periodic emails I see from Outlook/Exchange
trying to "recall" a message.  Yeah, that's really gonna work....

bill