'Saved'? Site Lets You Send E-mails Post-Rapture

[kpete]

'Saved'? Site Lets You Send E-mails Post-Rapture
Youvebeenleftbehind.com Lets Saved Christians Send Emails From Heaven
By ASHLEY PHILLIPS
June 10, 2008

RSS A new Web site is offering a first-of-its-kind service: sending e-mails to nonbelieving friends and family who are "left behind" after you are whisked away by God in the rapture.

The site Youvebeenleftbehind.com offers users the ability to store e-mails and documents that will be sent to up to 63 e-mail addresses six days after the rapture has occurred. Users get up to 250 megabytes of storage space, 150 megabytes of it encrypted for sensitive information such as bank account numbers or eTrade passwords that can be accessed by those who remain on earth.

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Billed as the last chance to "snatch them from the flames," Youvebeenleftbehind.com is the month-old brainchild of Mark Heard, a 49-year-old supermarket shelf-stocker who lives in Cape Cod, Mass.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=5029712&page=1

[av8rdave]

1. Wouldn't that be false advertising...unless the server is actually in heaven?

[Mz Pip]

5. They don't need

no stinking servers in Heaven. :rofl:

No long dial-up waits either.

[spanone]

2. boy do i feel better, not being able to email thru eternity was a real concern of mine

[flvegan]

3. Yeah, I'd trust those nutjobs with my bank and stock account numbers.

Sure.

:eyes:

[Mountainman]

4. Somebody has to stay behind to send the emails right?

A sucker is born every minute.

[av8rdave]

6. You suppose they draw straws, or just hire an atheist?

[Recursion]

8. It's a canonical computer security problem

And sometimes it's presented in the form of "rapture" (though more generally in the form of "plague"). The point is to develop a "dead man's switch", ie, something that triggers unless there is positive control.

[TommyO]

7. The company has one dedicated sinner to ensure that

I surmise.


:eyes:

[anigbrowl]

11. Their idea is that if the server admins don't log in for several days, rapture has occurred

and the emails are sent out automatically. This server is begging to be hacked, although I should note for legal purposes that I lack both the skills and inclination to do so.

[Submariner]

9. Well that clears up that problem, thank goodness

[liberal N proud]

10. I think I will send one to myself

That way if the rapture happens I will get notified. LOL

[cherokeeprogressive]

12. $40 a year for membership. Way to soak the fundies! Great Idea. n/t

[JustinL]

13. the arrogance of these people is astounding

Heard says it's also a way to pass on financial information to loved ones who remain on earth before God's return.

"The idea started for me in 1999 when I was… trading equities online and trying to think, 'How I can send my password to my wife if the Rapture happened at this moment?'" he said.

I wonder what his wife thinks of his assumption that she'll be left behind?

Youvebeenleftbehind.com offers users the ability to store e-mails and documents that will be sent to up to 63 e-mail addresses six days after the rapture has occurred.

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Heard, who wouldn't reveal how many people have signed up for the service, has set up his e-mail server with what he calls a "fail-safe" clause: if three of his five employees fail to log on to their work accounts after six days, the service will be triggered and the e-mails be sent out.

In other words, there are dozens of leftbehinders for every one rapturee, yet he expects at least 60% of his employees to be raptured? Apparently, he has a higher opinion of his employees than he does of his own wife.

[Bleacher Creature]

14. Whenever a new poll comes out w/ Bush's approval #s, I'm shocked that ~20% of people still approve.

In that context, this story actually helps me understand better who those people are.