What I hope is that you will realize how very easy it is to fall into the mistake of not documenting electronic material. Citation information needs to be kept with forwarded material for scholarship s sake. In this instance there was a chance for the mistakes to be corrected because my name and email address were still attached. In the on-line world, we are all publishers and that means learning to think like publishers as protectors of scholarship for the long term in citation information and overall structure of material. The function of citation information is to allow for debate and interpretation.
Authorship means accountability, dates mean currency and context, and institution conveys context.
I was able to trace back, then to the newsletter and communicate with the editor who will print corrections in the next edition. The editor could have avoided the inaccurate information and received a better version if he had contacted me first. This has also happened to me with webpage material. I tracked my webpage down using a search engine and asked the person to remove the page and instead link to the one I maintained with current information. Because a person can enter anywhere, all pages need this information.