[kingu]

Most major ISPs archive e-mail that travels through their systems. Inbound, outbound and pass-through. I suppose originally this was intended as temporary measures, but it has become standard practice.

If you go by some of the same websites that warn against e-mailing people at google, the FBI and the NSA also archive every e-mail that passes through any of the major peer to peer centers.

Terrorists tend to use message boards for this reason.

[summer]

Very interesting. So, obviously -- with all our advances online, with email, it still makes more sense to pick up the phone sometimes! Thanks. :)

[summer]

Although I must admit that was not always obvious to me. I prefer email, simply because I can go back and reread and rethink what someone said, and that's harder to do if you're talking by phone -- but I am really trying to use email less often now, for many reasons. Even though it's not my preference. I realize I have to get a cell phone!