This won't last long...

From Al-Reuters/Yahoo:

You've got mail, and maybe gonorrhea

E-mail sent through Web sites launched in Los Angeles and San Francisco is providing people with a free, sometimes anonymous, way to tell their casual sex partners they might have picked up more than they bargained for.

The website is called inSPOT and is funded by the San Francisco Department of Public Health. There's another in Los Angeles as well.

Now I do recognize that folks need to be notified if they might have caught some dread disease. And as much as I feel that folks should take responsibility for their own actions, I can see that some folks simply won't. And this might have been a good idea, if the ecards weren't tasteless and easy to abuse (click to enlarge):

I predict these will start showing up as joke emails in so many inboxes that they'll have to pull the sites down.

And in case you're speculating, no - I didn't send one to Glenn Reynolds as a joke, or even as a cheap attempt to garner an instalanche. That would be - well, tasteless.