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E-Mails -- Fast, Easy, and Dangerous

If you don't want to see your words blown up poster-size in a courtroom, don't hit that "Send" button in your e-mail program without giving it a lot of thought.

By Joan E. Collier, Joan E. Collier | Updated on July 31, 2009

If you don’t want to see your words blown up poster-size in a courtroom, don’t hit that “Send” button in your e-mail program without giving it a lot of thought. Legal and business consultants opine that e-mails may be both the fastest growing form of communication and the most dangerous.

It is their permanency that makes them especially problematic. While paper notes can be easily shredded, e-mails are rarely completely obliterated, and distribution to thousands is by the click of a mouse.

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