"I refuse to help Israel's war effort because I'm as sorry for a wounded Arab as I am for a wounded Israeli. People fundamentally are all the same and I can't discriminate. People should have no greater concern for the suffering of one race than they have for any other. I believe in, and want to help as far as I can, to understand mankind and what ever color, creed, religion, or nationality. And I think this sort of philosophy, however broad and general it sounds, is the only basic one that the leaders of the world can work from to attain world peace."
-- Brian Epstein

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* Of course Brian was the 5th ~ The Beatles were unable to exist without him *
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Am I the only one in the world who would have totally given up ever seeing The Beatles become famous ~ if it meant Brian would have been okay? :(

Warning: Even destroying your computer won't delete all the emails you ever sent...	09:05 am

...there are just too many servers that your email has passed through, and has been archived into...

Gone, But Not Forever
By John Roach, special to MSN Tech & Gadgets

E-mail difficult (actually impossible) to delete, easy to recover, experts say

This may be an old article, but it is still as true as ever.
Maybe even more true than we want to know.

( Read more... )

"You can't erase e-mails, not today. They've gone through too many servers," he said last month from the Senate floor.

Leahy later added to reporters that "a teenage kid in my neighborhood can go get 'em for them." ( . )

But since e-mail is used to communicate among users of different computers, it leaves a trail as it jumps across the Internet from server to server to the recipients' inboxes.

Thus, in order for a message to completely vanish, it would have to be wiped from the sender's computer, the mail servers in between, any backups of those servers and the recipients' machines. ( . )
John Roach frequently writes about technology, science and the environment for National Geographic News. He lives in Seattle.

http://tech.msn.com/news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4848920

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Gone, But Not ForeverBy John Roach, special to MSN Tech & Gadgets

Gone, But Not Forever
By John Roach, special to MSN Tech & Gadgets