Legal Code: When Intra Becomes Extra
http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2001/07/legal/

Fausett, Bret A.
WebTechniques
2001

Abstract:

And somehow, on March 8, months of chat logs--what a CEO and his management team talked about in their almost daily online chats were the ordinary, boring aspects of running a company. But a few posts involved company strategies. The posts revealed negotiating tactics the team planned to use with business partners, and some of those tactics revealed a fundamental lack of good faith. If the public message logs didn't increase the company's liability exposure, they certainly poisoned its hard-earned business relationships.