What?! If you follow any of my Blogs, you’ll know that every once and awhile I run into a new fun word that spawns a post. Sempiternal is one of those words.
sempiternal \sem-pih-TUR-nuhl\, adjective
Of never-ending duration; having beginning but no end; everlasting; endless.
How does that apply to e-mail you say? You can never assume that any e-mail you send is gone, deleted and will never be seen again. Folks hang on to their e-mails, archive those they want to “remember” — for good and bad reasons alike — pass them on and even post them to the Web. While posting to the Web without your permission is copyright infringement — it still happens.
You delete them off your computer and they are gone forever, right? Wrong. Unless you are a real techie-whiz and still even then, traces of those e-mails are on your hard drive. Just check the news for the latest bad guy caught because they underestimated the Delete button in their e-mail program!
And even if you think you’ve deleted the e-mail on your side, your employer, friends and even strangers could have a copy of that e-mail. Since e-mail is clearly sempiternal; never put anything in an e-mail your wouldn’t want your Mother to read and you have nothing to worry about!
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My father said, ‘Never put in writing anything you would dislike having read out in court’. Great advice, even though it has ruined my journaling to this day!
Hey, Wendy!
Your father was a wise man! ;-) I’ve used something similar on this site: “Don’t put anything in an e-mail that you wouldn’t want your Mother to read!” That probably would have messed with your journaling too! Thanks for stopping by!