[Timesink]

There are ways to audit email trails. If it got all the way to a user's INBOX and was deleted by the user, then papers were served.

There are ways to create fraudulent trails too ... that's what worries me.

[Poohbah]

The work to create fraudulent trails is a lot MORE than the work involved in physically tracking down and serving the miscreant with real paper.

You worried about a process server, perchance?