Self-destructing email 21 Sep 2007

Rohit Bhargava makes a case for "self-destructing" email:

"The problem with most email tools is that they...let you mark emails as urgent or not urgent, store them in folders, mark them as spam, but not decide what you want to do with them automatically after you read them. Of course, I could delete them after I read them, but I don't and this leads to email clutter. Why can't I set up certain types of emails to 'self destruct' (automatically delete) after a certain period of time? My notifications of friend requests and blog comments would automatically delete 1 hour after I read them. The sales or promotional emails would automatically delete after the expiration date of the sale has been reached. Other types of emails would be ones I could set the self destruct time for (number of hours or days after reading). Then I could read my emails and then have them go away without having to do anything (of course, allowing me to undo if something is accidentally deleted). How cool would that be?"