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Re: Wanna Send Emails Into The Future? Now You Can.

lawksalih — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:11:55 -0000

Come on Mashable!

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kaushik — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:43:52 -0000

http://www.lettermelater.com/ is great.

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tommy — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:32:14 -0000

43 things...

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tieTYT — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:12:53 -0000

Here's a very legitimate use of this: Send EVERY email 2 minutes from now. How many times have I sent an email only to realize there's a little piece of information I wanted to add or I said something incorrect? If you give yourself 2 minutes grace period, you can cancel/add on to the email instead of sending a second one.

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Josh — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:32:47 -0000

If you want to send yourself reminders quick and easy... I kinda like this one.

http://iwantsandy.com/

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David Berkowitz — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:21:09 -0000

I use the delay delivery feature in Outlook all the time, namely when I'd rather a message go out first thing in the morning rather than after midnight. I wouldn't mind Gmail adding such a feature.

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Bryan Le — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:53:35 -0000

If I'm still using the same email address in 5 years...and if there isn't some technology that makes email obsolete...

Then maybe I'd use it.

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Steve — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:03:59 -0000

This actually type of feature/app has a great use for those who work from home or run their own business.

If I reply to an email in off hours, sometimes a client will think I am available and online. But I'm usually just catching up on the day's worth of email and don't want to be bothered. With a system like this, I can answer all my emails and have them fire off during normal business hours.

Also, a lot of emails strike up a return phone call. You could schedule them, so that your phone isn't ringing off the hook immediately.

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Jonathan C — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:56:59 -0000

I know this is pessimistic, really dark thinking, but I think a worst (but possible) use case of this app would be sending people suicide notes after the fact. I know, I know, terrible thinking.

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Rian — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:25:26 -0000

for 50 bucks and 4 hours work I'm sure he'll make his money back regardless of all the issues.

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twoluvcats — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:36:00 -0000

l8r.nu also does it & very well I may add.

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Guest — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:22:12 -0000

This has been done before.

http://www.futureme.org/

I used this years ago. And the earliest copyright year is 2002.

Re: Wanna Send Emails Into The Future? Now You Can.

Chris — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:55:08 -0000

But Google Calendar can be sent to you only, if you want to send an e-mail to another address, then you can use TimeMachiner or other services.

Gmail also can provide an option to send e-mails at a future data, like it does with Blogger.com, where you can post blogs at a future date.

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huxleyboyce — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:45:02 -0000

sounds like a good idea, but will it work I wonder.

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Won't work — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:28:15 -0000

that won't work. with aweber the owner of the email needs to initiate/ approve the registration of his/her email first before it'll send something off. aweber is essentially an opt-in email newsletter mechanism which can then send emails at intervals. Unless ofcourse, there is a way to manually put the emails into aweber's interface without the actual email owner's permission -- i won't doubt that there isn't an option to do that already.

Plus you forget that aweber has a monthly fee and timemachiner is free.

with this time machiner, you don't really need anyone to opt it. Bottom line is, aweber and timemachiner is actually used for different purposes... aweber being for mass email blasts.

that all being said, both are potential sources to initiate spam... the spammers are probably coming up with plans as we speak.

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Ralf Becher — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:53:31 -0000

This is an interesting idea but how you could know that this application still works in five year or later...

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Amber D. Evans — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:25:22 -0000

As a coordinator of instruction, I can easily see a use for scheduling future emails. Many times I have email reminders already written and setup, ready to go out to the presenters of upcoming workshops. As it is now, I have to remember to send those every week when just being able to schedule them would be such a time saver.

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reddknight — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:21:32 -0000

I thought that was called spam email? I have email in my spam folder from the year 2038.