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Fezmid

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Whatchu talkin' 'bout Willis?

 

You can delete messages. Just check them and hit the drop down menu- select "move to trash" and voila. Your messages are trashed. To empty the trash, go into the trash, check the messages, and click the "delete forever" button.

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Yeah, but Google still keeps a copy for themselves.

 

I'll see if I can dig up the info.

 

EDIT: Here's a good article:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/03/go...s_evil_privacy/

 

Specifically:

Google's Gmail privacy policy points out that your email will be retained even after you close your account -

 

"The contents of your Gmail account also are stored and maintained on Google servers in order to provide the service. Indeed, residual copies of email may remain on our systems, even after you have deleted them from your mailbox or after the termination of your account."

 

EPIC, a very well respected organization in regards to privacy rights, has a whole page about Gmail:

http://www.epic.org/privacy/gmail/faq.html

 

EDIT2: Here's the link to Google's explanation of the whole thing. They *claim* that the "We keep things indefinately" is false, even though it WAS in their privacy policy. Who knows.

 

http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/more.html

 

Hope that helps some.

 

CW

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