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Be careful with your e-mails

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E-mail messages can come back to haunt you. As more and more people become comfortable with their computers and the Internet, they forget that e-mail correspondence is more permanent than verbal conversation. E-mails, even if deleted off your personal computer, can often be recovered. Several civil and criminal cases recently have used e-mail records as evidence, including the antitrust case against Microsoft in the 1990s. To find out more about why you should think carefully before you send that next e-mail, you can read the article Perspective: Getting nailed by e-mail.

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