Part 1 of Essay
Email is becoming an important mode of communication in our work and personal lives. It is a fast and convenient way to communicate inside and outside organizations. Memos that at the past had to either be typed or handwritten and then routed through a slow and complex distribution system, now can be dashed off on a comput ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... and files are telling sources of information about an organization's policies and actions. In the antitrust case against Microsoft "E-mail messages dashed off years ago by the Microsoft Corp. chairman and his top lieutenants now figure prominently as digital "smoking guns" . . . Trustbusters say electronic messages, perhaps more than any paper document, could help them prove that Microsoft sought to crush competitors and monopolize access to the Internet." However, Microsoft is not alone. Morgan Stanley Dea ....