William Creamer said "Then their definitions are incomplete because "business process" (which transmitting or communicating is part of) is definitely part of the definition of a record to most businesses."

Actually, William, most of the definitions DO include some notion of the business process. The typical wording is "in transaction of business". For example,

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration regulations §1220.14 "General definitions":
"Records include all books, papers, maps, photographs, machine readable materials, or other documentary materials, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or received by an agency of the United States Government under Federal law or in connection with the transaction of public business and preserved or appropriate for preservation by that agency or its legitimate successor as evidence of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations or other activities of the Government or because of the informational value of the data in them (44 U.S.C. 3301)."

Fred

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