RE: Using Web mail (hotmail, gmail, yahoo, etc) for Business mails

["Henry Troup" <HenryT () watchfire com>]

I'd add a third - corporate information is potentially archived in a place not under corporate control, and not under 
corporate policies.  There are two risks there, of disclosure and non-disclosure:

- disclosure through the webmail provider
- non-disclosure during legal discovery

Either one could be trouble.  

Also, of course, if you have corporate full-text search and so on, that information is not going to be in the public 
set.

Henry Troup
Watchfire Corporation 


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The two reasons I see it as a bad ideas because are: 1.) you are more
likely to be subject to DNSBL blocking (risk:loss of information), and
2.) it looks unprofessional (risk:corporate identity).

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