Deleting E-mail Could Get You In Trouble

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 8, 2004 @08:23AM from the not-yet-mandatory-for-your-own-email dept.

Sterling D. Allan writes "A story in the Deseret News cautions governments and corporations from deleting legitimate email. Expensive measures are being called into place to archive the mail for future subpoena purposes. Think Enron on one hand. Think Monicagate on the other. Next they'll ask us to keep recordings of all our phone conversations? Big brother gets bigger -- with good reasons, as always. What about all those business propositions I get from Nigeria. Do I have to keep those too? "Get rich from home" (to pay for the purchase of a new hard drive to contain all your spam). One man's junk is another man's treasure. You never know what an IRS agent might find lucky."

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IRS agents are needle dick bug fuckers by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-08 08:43 · Score: -1, Troll

Sorry, I just felt like using that phrase.
Re:I'm not that bothered by SpaceLifeForm · 2004-08-08 08:54 · Score: 0, Troll

The logs don't prove crap. They indicate that it was possible that you read it, but it's also possible that your spam filter tossed it.

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Re:I'm not that bothered by Monkelectric · 2004-08-08 08:56 · Score: -1, Troll

I don't want to store twenty thousand pieces of spam that every user might collect over two years
20,000 every two years? I get bout 6,000 pieces a month. Not kidding.

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Re:I'm not that bothered by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-08 09:00 · Score: -1, Troll

This is why you should not vote for the liar Bush, but instead vote for Kerry!