Service saves you from impulsive emails

A JAPANESE ISP has come up with a cure for those emails that you wished you had never sent.

Nifty has started a service that will enable punters to delete e-mails they have sent before the addressee has seen them.

The free service is designed for those moments when you sent an email to the wrong person, or if you sent it to the right person but probably should not have done.

All those drunken letters of resignation, accidental dumping of girlfriends, love letters sent to the wife instead of the mistress, or invites to collect a knighthood for a donation to the Labour party accidentally sent to the tabloids could all be a thing of the past.

It does not work if the addressee has already opened the message or if the person has not designated the e-mail as erasable.

If they want to delete the message after sending it, he or she must then select the e-mail from the "sent messages" folder and check if it has been opened. If it hasn't you can erase the contents and leave a note saying it was meant for someone else.

The service can also used when you send an embarrassing email to to multiple addresses by mistake. µ