“When I told him “sorry, you don’t”...he turned a few shades whiter. I never learned the details but noticed he wasn’t around any longer.”
I worked for a tech company, MT based but we were world-wide, in the late 90’s.
One of the VP’s sent an email to our CEO mentioning that he could get a friend at the WSJ to place a story — not 100% reality based, mind you — in the paper to cast a foul light upon a competitor to help ‘the company’ on a RFP. Unfortunately he sent it to ‘ALL.’
45 seconds later the email was retrieved - MS Office MailServer.
The email disappeared faster than Keyser Söze... (I did print a copy for, uh, ya know...)
Fine if sent internally...all on your own servers, this was to a customer!!