Today's Globe has yet another reminder that e-mails are permanent in a way that conservsations are not. The"trust fund baby" who turned down the job in the article seems like a real piece of work.

Manan Ahmed - 2/21/2006

My favorite memory is of a harried phone call, late at night, from an illustrious professor asking, "I just send an email. I really need to recall it back, right away, without them seeing it."
He cared little for my explanations about how data zips around on these internets.