Here's an interesting question... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 17:11:29 -0000 From: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [dcpubs] Who inherits e-mail? Web servers must hold truckloads of messages in the accounts of people who have died. As moderator of a new list on a topic dear to my heart, I am looking for a way to empower someone else to take control--but only after I no longer can. (Oh, wow--imagine an account cracked for courtroom evidence forty years after the owner's death. The rulings, the rebuttals, the authorization battles! Guess I've been reading too many murder mysteries.) In a search for precedents for such matters as they pertain to the virtual world, I've tried this string at dogpile.com, with no result: "list heirs" or "virtual heirs" OR "heir to listserv" Anybody? (Sorry.)