Reminder to take care with those emails!
Most, if not all of us, have been burned by email mistakes: sending emails to unintended recipients, mistakenly forwarding emails, forgetting to include promised attachments. This article details one such mistake, with costly results, and may remind the rest of us to take care!
From Otis White's Urban Notebook column at Governing.com, posted April 28, 2005
Don’t Hit ‘Send’! How to Delete a Convention
"Most veteran politicians (and all dishonest ones) know this bit of wisdom: Never put anything in writing that you can say on the phone. Never say anything on the phone that you can say in person. And never say anything in person that you can communicate with a wink. Let’s add one more: And never, ever discuss anything embarrassing in an e-mail. "
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From Otis White's Urban Notebook column at Governing.com, posted April 28, 2005
Don’t Hit ‘Send’! How to Delete a Convention
"Most veteran politicians (and all dishonest ones) know this bit of wisdom: Never put anything in writing that you can say on the phone. Never say anything on the phone that you can say in person. And never say anything in person that you can communicate with a wink. Let’s add one more: And never, ever discuss anything embarrassing in an e-mail. "
The full text of the article is currently available at: http://www.governing.com/notebook/today.htm
It will soon move archives at: http://www.governing.com/notebook/prev.htm
Multiple columns are displayed together, so you may need to scroll down at either page to find this article.
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