E-mail gaffe leads to billion-dollar news leak

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

When your e-mail goes to the inbox of wrong person...

"A simple e-mail slip-up, the kind any one of us could make at any time:
A Philadelphia lawyer addresses his electronic missive to an Alex Berenson instead of Bradford Berenson.

But what happens next is anything but routine; it's front-page news in the New York Times.
That's because Alex Berenson happens to be a reporter for the New York Times...."
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More at
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/24748

pointing to original Portfolio.com story:
http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/top-5/2008/02/05/Eli-Lilly-E-Mail-to-New-York-Times
 
Juha-Matti
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