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  • From: "Alan MacHett" <machett AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Email from beyond the grave
  • Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:51:47 -0500 (EST)

one of our very own ibiblio sites deals with just this sort of thing;
you'll never have to die:

http://www.ibiblio.org/jstrout/uploading/

-Alan

Edward Wesolowski said:
> Michael:
> I can't remember if it was "Neuromancer" or "Mona Lisa Overdrive" but one
> of William Gibson's stories has a character, ...I have this image of a
> dude
> being carried around on a stretcher with a car battery powering a computer
> he's connected to that's online, "jacked in to cyberspace."
> I think he was still alive. That character was, but there was another
> character that had died, but was still online.
>
> ...gives me a headache just thinking of the implications;-) Put me in mind
> of an old Firesign Theater riff, "what is reality." ...now I do have a
> headache. Hey, I gotta get back to reality.
> Ed W.
>
> At 09:57 AM 11/12/03 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>On Nov 11, 2003, at 2:54 PM, Michael Winslow Czeiszperger wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.mylastemail.com
>>
>>How about a variation on this service where the dead can continue to
>>post to their favorite mailing lists? The customer would upload a bunch
>>of rants on their favorite pet peeves, and then the service would scan
>>the mailing list posts for discussions of interest to the dead person.
>>The service would then reply *for* them.
>>
>>________________________________________________________________________
>>_________
>>Run, run, run, as fast as you can. You can't catch me, I'm the stinky
>>cheese man!
>> -- michael at czeiszperger dot org, Chapel Hill, NC
>>
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