[Marginally OT] Does GMail Actually Delete Email?

[David A. Bandel]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> Hi, list,
>
> I checked my GMail account via IMAP (using KMail, if you /must/ know)
> tonight. Much to my surprise, the "All Mail" folder had well north of
> 21,000 messages in it, dating back to to sometime in 2005 when I first
> got my GMail account. I'm /quite/ sure that I deleted that email (using
> the GMail interface, of course), so I was quite surprised to see that
> they had kept all that detritus around for 3+ years. Anyone else here
> had a similar experience?

Never cared.  I believe their terms of service cover this more than
well enough.  I know this was discussed back then.

>
> I've never trusted Google, so this isn't helping their cause with me...

I trust Google more than the US government and their snooping
machines.  Regardless, if you consider something private, personal, or
in any way confidential, you should encrypt that traffic.  If you
trust plain text anything over circuits you don't own (and possibly
some that you do), I am surprised at your naivety.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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