Ask Darin Myman about an email that should never have been sent, and he likely will tell you about a friend who was caught cheating on his wife when she examined the contents of his sent email. Of course Darin himself, like almost everyone who uses email regularly, must have made his own email mistakes – perhaps a wrong attachment, a wrong email address (autofill is a convenience, but you really have to pay attention!), unintentional use of ‘reply all’, or indiscreet contents that might be regretted only nanoseconds after clicking the ‘send’ button. But even though his mistakes may not have experienced the same degree of consequences as his red-handed friend’s, they were enough to inspire Darin to do something about the problem, and that is how he came up with the idea for BigString.
BigString Corporation now offers BigString 3.0, a web-based email service that gives the user control over sent mail – even once the mail is delivered to the recipient. BigString.com webmail service is the only service that offers this. This type of feature is already familiar to users of certain email services, such as AOL mail. In AOL, however...