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Shattering the email myth.

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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20030922
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Byline: CHRISTOPHER HUDSON

IF TONY BLAIR had read any of Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels on his holiday, as I've just been doing, he would have seen in action a far safer method of communications than the system uncovered by Lord Hutton's inquiry.

When Lady Glencora Palliser wished to summon her friend Alice Vavasor on the other side of London, her reply came in under an hour. When Alice sat down in the late afternoon to tell her cousin Kate in Westmoreland about her brother's villainous behaviour, she knew her missive would be on Kate's breakfast table the next ...

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