[MamaLucci]

Sharing an e-mail account and a password is an excellent way to send messages without any chance that they will be intercepted. The message never leaves the original server. Nobody would ever know that you were communicating with anyone but yourself. So you send a message to yourself and the other guy with the password gets it. Simple and untraceable e-mails. The only way that the e-mails could be traced is if the FBI happend to search both users computers. Thus even though the FBI had the e-mails from Mossoui's computer, they could not know where they came from unless they searched the sender's computer. In this case it appears they searched one of Berg's computers and found the link. Coincidence? not likely.

Great point.....untraceable e-mail.

[Travis McGee]

929 and 964: Great catch!!!!!

[oceanview]

the email message still has to travel from the server, to the client PC where it is being displayed.

[js1138]

Great point.....untraceable e-mail.

Not a particularly good solution, particularly since everyone seems to know about it. If I were the feds, I would give forst priority to scanning drafts and messages sent to self. You cannot send email except from the server that provides your internet access. You can receive it from anywhere, but it will pass through other servers in transit.

[little jeremiah]

P-Marlowe - your comments are lucid and sharp.

Just an addition about the email - I read (on FR, natch) that terrorists sometimes use a webmail account, each have the password, write messages which they put in the draft file and are never sent, and then the other one(s) get them out of the draft file, delete, and the email never goes into the ether.

Is this the same as what you're describing?