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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) used an instant-messaging system that did not automatically save the messages they sent, according to newly released emails obtained by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Disgraced former IRS official Lois Lerner loved the agency’s “Office Communication Server” (OCS) specifically because it left no record of her messages during the period in which her department was targeting conservative and tea party groups. “I was cautioning folks about email and how we have had several occasions where Congress has asked for emails and there has been an electronic search for responsive emails — so...

It has recently come to my attention that cell phones are profoundly changing the world in ways we may not realize. Kids are growing up learning the shorthand spellings of words commonly used in cellphone text messaging. These misspellings are bleeding over into their non text messaging life. This is not good in my opinion. But this is a small thing compared to what is going on with kids in other parts of the world. In countries where modern technology is common and the Latin alphabet is not traditionally used, kids are learning to text message their native language using...

How can a person from the US, traveling to China (Beijing), send messages inexpensively back to US and vice versa, besides email? Cell phone rates will be $1.50/minute, so I'd like to minimize that if I can. Specifically, - Will AIM or AIM express work from China, or will we have to use ICQ? Is there a way to send AIM messages to a cell phone as a text message rather than to another AIM client? - Does the T-Mobile web-to-cell phone text messaging feature https://wmg.tmomail.net/customer_site/jsp/messaging_lo.jsp work from outside the US? Has anyone used it from China to send a...

Foley, Pirro, Allen - Political Set-Ups? Written by Doc Farmer Tuesday, October 03, 2006 File this article under "Things That Make You Go Hmmm...." First of all, let me make my meaning plain -- Former House Representative Mark Foley is a bastard. He's a scumbag. He's a sleazy pervert. He's a disgrace. I don't care if he laid a finger on any congressional pages or not. His Instant Messages were disgusting, and he had no business using his position of power to "flirt" with underage boys (or girls, if he were so inclined). I do, however, have to ask this...