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The courts have found that typing
your name in an e-mail can have the same force as
signing your name on a legally binding contract. |
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Anyone who receives your e-mail can change its
content in any way they like and that there is often
no way of telling that it has been changed. |
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Anyone can send an e-mail that appears to be from
your name and e-mail address. |
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You cannot prove that an e-mail was sent. The
fact that the message is in your “sent”
folder proves nothing. |
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You cannot prove when your e-mail was sent. That
time and date on the copy you save are legally meaningless.
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You cannot prove that your e-mail was delivered.
Anyone can say, “I didn’t get the message.”
Legally, Post Office mail is presumed to be delivered
if sent; not e-mail. Those receipts you get from
your e-mail program can be legally meaningless.
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Many corporations routinely destroy all records
of received e-mail every few weeks to make it impossible
for you to prove what you’ve sent to them
even if you have a court order. |
