Hi- I have a friend of a friend that needs to make sure an email is removed and cannot be recovered from his/her harddrive. I said no problem - I can physically destroy the HD or, if you want to use it again I can DBAN the HD and reinstall, and if you don't want to go that route, we can find software to rewrite over (an over) the empty blocks etc etc... (any other ideas here?). (S)He then asked about the server that had the email - in this case it was hotmail.com. I said I hadn't a clue about how to make sure that when (S)he "trashed" the email on hotmail - that it really "went away". I also had no clue if the "LAW" could get their hands on the email via hotmail.com even if we cleared the local computer. Can anyone on the list help me address these concerns? thanks John(nnyF) _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list