Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 11:00:19PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: >> I read the "for backup purposes" as being a euphemism, implying that the >> second copy was being kept for nefarious purposes, including so that it >> could be reviewed (including by third parties) even if the user had >> deleted the "visible" copy. > > Yes, precisely this. I thought it was blatantly obvious, but as > usual the Internet has corrected my assumptions.
Hm, I must've missed that message ... "Nefarious" or not, anyone worth their salt has backups of their mail (be it corporate IT / an ISP / google / whoever), since things fail at times. Hell, I have "dead-tree-backups(tm)" of emails from previous employers asking for stupid things that'd break best practices / etc. -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281
