> A recent news item here in the USA pointed out that > servers retain records of your e-mail, so that it can be > recovered and used against you. Your own computer > hardly erases anything for good, unless you're short on > space, so it can be retrieved and scanned.
If you are working on a Windows 3.x or 95/NT machine, just use defrag as often as you can, and you'll leave nothing at all on your disk(s)... As for servers keeping your email, well, one of the raw matters which are most precious is disk space. It seems strange (to me) that Internet providers are eager to occupy so much disk space with copies of old email messages for--for how much time? Seems an urban legend, but maybe you have detailed proofs of this. Umberto Rossi Se non sei sul web, hai torto! If you're not on the web, you're wrong!
