Juan Valdez says (October 25th, 2007 at 12:09 pm)
BigString is an interesting product but it has some drawbacks. First, the person you are sending the email to must pick it up at BigString. It’s almost like sending a greeting card to someone and they have to go to a website to pick it up. It’s inconvenient for the email recipient. And, say you decide you’ve made a mistake and sent an email you now regret. If you beat the recipient to the bigstring site you can delele it. If you don’t get there quick enough to kill the email, you’re too late. Or if the email has been deleted, the person you were sending to knows you withdrew your email.
I think a better solution is YankBack. It’s a sort of rest stop on the Internet Highway where your emails are held for a few minutes before they go on and are delivered normally. If you realize you’ve sent an email by mistake, or sent an email in anger, or perhaps mistakenly replied to an email you meant to forward, you just click on an icon in your system tray and are taken to your mail que at YankBack and you can delete it. You can actually stop the email after it has left the computer. I use the service when I have forgotten to attach. I delete it from YankBack and since it’s on my computer, just resend with the attachment. Yankback can be found at http:/www.yankback.com.


