Why is everyone chasing this red herring? Emails aren’t stored on a PC. They are serviced and stored within servers that are thereby backed up commensurate with storage and retention policies. The media is then taken from server to disk or tape and stored off-site. So the Government who has enacted unbelievable regulations across the financial services industry for media retention laws would have us believe emails vanished? What would happen to a bank that says this? I can tell you for Enron what happened.....pokey time. We are getting lost in the minutia of a red herring
Exactly right. Any large entity has an email server that should be backed up daily and cuts of that backup are sent to various locations on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis. I can go to any computer and access my corporate emails via a web interface even though I also have a copy of them already downloaded on my desktop. Why, because the email server keeps copies ... and don’t tell me the NSA has not scarfed down the emails somewhere as well. Why no one has brought this up in congress is beyond me.