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RAIN 10/04: MD's database, e-mails and a new search engine



Business Wire 9/26/00
Iron Mountain Incorporated and PaperClip Software Establish Strategic
Alliance to Deliver Document Exchange Services
http://news.excite.com/news/bw/000926/ma-iron-mountain-papercl


BOSTON (BUSINESS WIRE) - Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE:IRM), the global
leader in records and information management services, and PaperClip
Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:PCLP), a leading provider of Integrated Document
Management, Exchange and Capture solutions, today announced the creation of a
strategic alliance to provide outsourced document exchange services. This
alliance combines the well-established records management skills of Iron
Mountain with PaperClip's Internet Express document exchange network and
document management technology to provide cost-effective capture, transport
and, future archiving services.


Sydney Morning Herald 10/02/00
Doctors' database 'will be sold to drug companies'
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0010/02/text/national5.html

by Damien Murphy
A proposed database of the prescribing and practice patterns of general
practitioners will be sold to drug companies to develop targeted marketing
campaigns across the country, according to the Australian Medical Association.
Australia's largest practice software company, the Health Communication
Network, is promoting its latest software program to GPs pushing its use as a
research tool to allow doctors to conduct clinical audits.
GPs have been asked to provide clinical data on antibiotic use and the
diagnosis and management of depression over the next 12 months for inclusion
in the HCN's GP Practice Research Network.
The data will not identify patients, but GPs will have access to the
information to compare progress against best practice standards.


Pioneer Planet 10/01/00
E-mail forwards are no joking matter to employer
http://www.pioneerplanet.com/seven-days/4/business/docs/005147.htm


by Monica Soto
Knight Ridder News Service
It's not funny.
For many, the days of forwarding co-workers ``Top 10'' lists may be coming to
an end. Forget about sending out links to the personal home page of the
notorious Turkish bachelor donning Speedos.
With e-mail and Internet use soaring at work, software that monitors those
communications has become increasingly popular.
Employers have the ability to scan e-mails for such things as unusually large
file sizes, confidential information or inappropriate words. What's more,
employers are doing it in droves.


The Tribune 10/03/00
Group seeks to open ISU Foundation's records
http://www.amestrib.com/news.cfm?num=1877

by Liz Allen
AMES--A nonprofit group hopes to bring the Iowa State University Foundation
under the state's open records laws.
The Iowa Freedom Of Information Council voted last weekend to make opening
fund-raising records at ISU, the University of Iowa and the University of
Northern Iowa one of its top priorities for the year.
The reason? Bill Monroe, executive director of the Iowa Newspaper
Association, said it's because the universities are cutting budgets while at
the same time setting fund-raising records.



E&P Online 10/03/00
PAC-INFO.com is packing public records
Gateway to 1,500 free, searchable databases
http://www.mediainfo.com/ephome/news/newshtm/webnews/digital.htm

by Charles Bowen
For a binge on stats, visit the site at http://www.pac-info.com
We data-nuts have a different way of killing time than most people. Instead
of playing solitaire or cruising eBay for collectibles, we dive into new
databases and figure out how many non-profit organizations are in Virginia or
learn the names and addresses of labor organizations in Louisiana.
Granted, our fishing expeditions sometimes produce little more than
conversation stoppers for the next staff party. ("Zat a fact? Well, thank
you, Cliffie... But, whoa! Look at the time ...")



Canberra Times 10/04/00
Woman 'shredded Bruce papers'
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news2/news1.shtml

by Liz Armitage
The Australian Federal Police is investigating an allegation that Bruce
Stadium documents were shredded in the Chief Minister's Department.
Independents Dave Rugendyke and Paul Osborne referred the allegation to
police last Wednesday after Mr Rugendyke received a phone call from a member
of the public.
The Canberra Times has learnt that a woman who was working as a trainee in
the department when the Bruce Stadium audit was beginning has said she was
asked to put papers in a "confidential security bin" - a shredder.



Washington Times 10/03/00
Gore office accused of e-mail diversion
http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-2000103222736.htm

by Jerry Seper
House investigators yesterday accused Vice President Al Gore's office of
hiding e-mail records by bypassing a White House computer backup system that
resulted in the loss of critical messages over six years
"There can be little doubt that the vice president's advisers knew their
actions would permit his office to operate in a manner that would make it
less susceptible to oversight," investigators for the House Government Reform
Committee said in a report to be released Thursday.
"In effect, they 'reinvented government' to stay above the law and
congressional oversight."



The Guardian 10/04/00
Lawyer changes e-mail testimony
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/breakingnews/US/0,3560,458935,00.html

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - A former White House lawyer has changed some of her
testimony in the e-mail controversy after being brought before a grand jury
and confronted with documents by prosecutors in Independent Counsel Robert
Ray's office.
The changes submitted by ex-White House lawyer Michelle Peterson in a civil
court filing give a glimpse of Ray's investigation into whether the White
House covered up the e-mail problem in 1998 at the height of the Monica
Lewinsky scandal. Presidential aides deny any cover-up.
``During the course of my testimony to the grand jury, it appeared from the
documents shown to me that I may have been mistaken,'' Peterson wrote in a
three-page declaration to a federal court last Wednesday.
Asked about the e-mail probe Tuesday, Ray senior counsel Keith Ausbrook
declined to comment.



New York Post 10/03/00
AOL to FCC: Why does Disney have our mail?
http://www.nypost.com/10032000/business/12264.htm

by Allyson Lieberman
Disney and AOL-Time Warner are at it again.
America Online urged Federal Communications Commission officials to take
immediate action against Disney for sending confidential documents about the
Internet giant without permission - and then waiting five days before
reporting the incident.
AOL claims that, at the request of the commission, it submitted various
documents - "including contracts, business plans and other business-sensitive
information" - to facilitate the agency's review of its $141 billion merger
with Time Warner.



CNN.com 10/02/00
Brokerage firms nervous about e-signatures law
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/10/02/digsig.brokers.idg/index.html

by Maria Twombly
Computerworld
New York (IDG) -- The new federal law giving digital signatures the same
legal weight as written ones went into effect on Sunday. But the Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC) already has guidelines in place for sending
documents electronically, and the two sets of rules don't match.
That worries many financial services firms, and the discrepancies between the
two sets of standards were a key topic of conversation at a conference that
was held in New York Tuesday by the Securities Industry Association (SIA).




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Virginia

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