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"Is There a Place for Vapor E-Communications?"

This post was written by Greg Lambert: "I've seen a couple of articles on VaporStream's "Electronic Conversation Software". The idea is that you can send communications that look a lot like e-mail, but the communication is temporary, exists in the cloud, and resides in your computers RAM (temporary memory). Once the communication is over, it disappears and cannot be recovered, even through e-discovery methods. The product is pitched as a great resource for reducing e-mail server storage, reduce the cost of potential e-discovery litigation, and satisfy the two tenants of HIPPA requirements. I took a quick look at it this morning and found that it is more of an Instant Messaging (IM) replacement than an e-mail replacement, but that it looks to have some good uses..."

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Source: 3 Geeks & a Blog, 18 June 2010. Reproduced with permission of the authors

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on June 21, 2010 (boomark / email).