Spam from Beyond

[yanpa]

Yahoo! Japan! launches! service! for! the! dead!
If you're reading this email, I am no longer alive

Yahoo! Japan has launched a service called “Endings” designed to help you after you die.

Endings is intended to let the dying set their affairs in order before they shuffle off this mortal coil. The service allows one to set up an automated message to email to up to 200 loved ones after you're gone. The email is triggered by a third party to whom you bequeath a code to activate Endings, which will fire off your valedictory and also delete any data you'd rather did not outlive you.

Yahoo! Japan has also teamed with Kamakura Shinsho Corporation, to help you arrange your own funeral.

...more...

[Coligny]

going to be successful here...

[wagyl]

Shenanigans! If that was really a quote from El Reg then all of those exclamation marks would have been in italics.

As is pointed out in the comments, if you are giving the master password to your trusted representative, you can really do it yourself and give them access to all your passwords and logins and not pay the monthly subscription. But you have to admit as a business model, it costs Softbank (because lets face it, that is who Yahoo! Japan is) next to nothing to set up and maintain, and they get a monthly haul from customers. I bet they even continue to bill until the master password is set off: if your trusted representative does not bother to fulfil your wishes how does Yahoo! Japan know you are dead?

[yanpa]

Shenanigans! If that was really a quote from El Reg then all of those exclamation marks would have been in italics.

Better! now?