Whitehouse emails, Netiquette, and Oliver North

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"THE CORE RULES OF NETIQUETTE"

Rule 1:
http://www.albion.com/netiquette/rule1.html

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Never forget the story of famous email user Oliver North. Ollie, you'll remember, was a great devotee of the White House email system, PROFS. He diligently deleted all incriminating notes he sent or received. What he didn't realize was that, somewhere else in the White House, computer room staff were equally diligently backing up the mainframe where his messages were stored. When he went on trial, all those handy backup tapes were readily available as evidence against him.

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