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How to Destroy Your Reputation With One Email

We all know by now that the shelf life of emails is a double-edged sword. Sure, it's great to archive so you can find historical information about how you dealt with so-and-so. But increasingly, emails are coming back to haunt the original senders. Almost every criminal case these days seems to involve damming email exchanges. And the worst part? Unlike the spoken word, once an email is sent out, it seems to take on its own life. Case in point, the now infamous exchange between a PR rep, a customer and a blogger. To sum it up, a disgruntled customer was asking questions of a company's ...

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