Over the last 15 years, the Internet has revolutionized legitimate business communications supplanting the venerable fax machine and creating its own marketing infrastructure. Nowhere is that revolution more prevalent than in the wide acceptance of e-mail as a way to maintain communica...

While e-mail may be a killer app, poorly archived e-mail can kill a business. During a recent prescription drug antitrust case, the plaintiff demanded a discovery search of 30 million pages of e-mail stored on the defendant?s backup tapes for names of particular individuals. The defend...