Is this presently possible?

[KiL]

Is this presently possible?

I would like to know if it is currently possible to use an emailing service or a way to format an email as to make it only be possible to be forwarded one time by whomever recieves it?

I like breif.

"Who do you want to know this?" seems like it would be good in the subject line.

*Bonus Question* : Perchance, may there be, yet another, modification that would be able to impose a time limit on when certain emails can be sent and/or recieved/read?

 

[AeroJonesy]

Re: Is this presently possible?

Once the information is in someone else's hands, there is nothing you can do to stop it.

 

[BobCox2]

Re: Is this presently possible?

A secrets only a secret if you don't tell it to anyone. Technology will never change that.

You can send them a link and allow them a 2 minute login to your server to access a encrypted message in read only format, but if they can see it, they can copy it and pass it on.

 

[stillman]

Re: Is this presently possible?

Yes you can! Just write them a letter. I don't see why e-mails are of paramount importance and of such urgency that it needs to be instant and faster than the postal service system.

I mean, aren't 99% of emails like: "Hi. How r u?" or "Have you seen this?" or "i thought this was cool. take a look."

 

[Johnny]

Re: Is this presently possible?

Yes you can! Just write them a letter. I don't see why e-mails are of paramount importance and of such urgency that it needs to be instant and faster than the postal service system.

I mean, aren't 99% of emails like: "Hi. How r u?" or "Have you seen this?" or "i thought this was cool. take a look."

Emails are instant, from your house and free

Regular letters are slow, need to be dropped off at a mailbox and cost money.

 

[s4nder]

Re: Is this presently possible?

I agree. I also never understood faxes when they were still around in the nineties. Like Michael Scott aptly said in The Office: "Why don't you just send it over on a dinosaur?"

I also find pagers and beepers to be near the 100% end of the uselessness scale, even 15 years ago. Maybe because I've only ever seen one and by then everyone already owned cellphones.

 

[BobCox2]

Re: Is this presently possible?

Yes you can! Just write them a letter. I don't see why e-mails are of paramount importance and of such urgency that it needs to be instant and faster than the postal service system.

I mean, aren't 99% of emails like: "Hi. How r u?" or "Have you seen this?" or "i thought this was cool. take a look."

Scan the letter - email it to someone else etc.
Hell it's less secure a e-mail you can claim you did not send it got hacked etc the letter proves you are the one sending it.

 

[KillerAim]

Re: Is this presently possible?

stillman:

Yes you can! Just write them a letter. I don't see why e-mails are of paramount importance and of such urgency that it needs to be instant and faster than the postal service system.

The question is "how can you prevent the recipient of a message (you sent to him) from forwarding it to other people?" Exactly how does sending something by snail-mail prevent this from happening?

At least you can delete sent E-mails that haven't been opened from within Outlook. How in the hell are you going to get the Post Office to not deliver the letter once you posted it?

 

[BobCox2]

Re: Is this presently possible?

Well they are going broke.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/washington/26postal.html

 

[Glurin]

Re: Is this presently possible?

If the information is that sensitive, the question you should really be asking is "Can I trust the person I give this information to to not pass it on to someone else?"

About 90% of all the "hacking" that happens in the world is just social engineering. (i.e. "Hi, I'm a sys admin and I need your password to fix your software problem.") All the security technology in the world won't do you any good if the people you give your information to hand it out like candy on Halloween.

 

[Johnny]

Re: Is this presently possible?

I agree. I also never understood faxes when they were still around in the nineties. Like Michael Scott aptly said in The Office: "Why don't you just send it over on a dinosaur?"

What better way to send in a hand written pay list?

 

[KiL]

Re: Is this presently possible?

I like how you guys are actually thinking about all possibilities.

My main motivation in finding out was to profit from an aura of exclusivity combined with mystery.

Seems like it would be easy to get teen-agers addicted to an email system with limitations on place, date, time, amount of people who can see/know information, and cannot send it to anyone who is not registered with said fictional service - think: notes in class.

Plus, email seems like one of the few social networking formats that is uncorrupted by commercialism (now that spam blockers are pretty effecient).