“First rule of emails: Never commit anything to electronic media that you would not want someone to see: Your wife, your boss, your child, an FBI prosecutor.... “
Indeed. Myself and Mrs. Catnipman were discussing this very issue this evening. As one of he early Internet builders and users, myself and everyone else involved knew and applied this rule even before the Internet was publicly available. Mrs. Catnipman understood the rule because of her work with law firms.
She had a hard time understanding that the youthful masters of the universe are both arrogant AND ignorant AND completely lack common sense and have no concept that others who have come before them know important things that they could learn if they only didn’t think they already knew everything that there was to know, which is WHY these fools are completely clueless about the most basic rule of email ever invented.
A long time ago, I worked for a major oil company.
The best advise I got from an IT type was:
Don’t put anything on the Internet that you don’t want to see on a billboard on the highway.