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On 2 June 2003 the e-mail reproduced above was flung into the ether by a summer intern employed at the prestigious law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Unfortunately for this budding executive, thanks to the wonders of his own carelessness his message was received by forty people at that firm, including twenty partners: Jonas Blank is far from the first to see an e-mail he meant for just one recipient escape into the wilds of the Internet. Personal e-missives usually become public fodder through the acts of a legitimate recipient who (for whatever reason) chooses to forward a note meant only for himself to a far larger audience. In this case, however, the victim did himself in — rather than sending his message to whomever he truly meant it for, he posted it to the underwriting mailing list. The intern's blunder was very quickly followed by this apology: The mea culpa must have worked. According to The Washington Post: The associate is still gainfully employed — making $2,400 a week, which figures to be $140,000 a year [sic]. Young Mr. Blank can console himself with the knowledge that at least his admission was merely of the goofing off variety. Others have seen their sexual and dating misdeeds become the stuff of cyber legend. There was Claire Swire, who in 2000 announced that certain bodily emissions of her boyfriend were yummy. And Peter Chung, who in 2001 thought to regale his buddies with tales of his escapades with paid companions. Then there was Jacqueline Kim, whose 2002 assessment of her date brought her infamy. And who can forget Trevor Luxton, who in 2003 thought to report on a sex act being performed on him by one gal during a phone conversation with another woman.
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