The forwarded email was quite concerning and warranted a better understanding of what had occurred, since it threatened the privacy and due process afforded students before the Board.

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Harvard said it eventually determined the leaks were an "inadvertent error" that stemmed from forwarded email that made its way to the media and that no action was taken against the dean whose email account was involved.

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It is estimated that employees spend up to two hours a day looking for the right information, such as searching for a forwarded file in email archives.

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Some employees prefer the ease and features of private email accounts such as Gmail and Yahoo Mail, so they forward some work email to them or even have all their work email automatically forwarded.

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Helen Gower, the personal assistant of EDL leader Tommy Robinson, told the court she was "very distressed" when the email was forwarded to her on 11 July last year - the day after Mr Mahmood sent it.

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But the subject-line search found an email from the disciplinary board handling the case had been forwarded from a resident dean to two students.

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On April 17, Justice admitted that Mr. Perez had used his verizon.net account for official business 34 times but explained he had forwarded or copied "the vast majority" of such communications to his government email account.

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