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To: elpolvo who wrote (29843)12/20/2013 1:35:34 PM
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Public Messages - I like the way things are. The proposed changes would open up all kinds of opportunities to revise history. Sure, I'd love the ability to go back and erase all of my bad stock and market calls. I'd love to erase some of the arguments that I got in on political threads. I'd love to erase some of the feuds that I got into with some people. I just don't want you to have the ability to do so, because what you have said in the past helps me (and others) to interpret what you are saying now.

It sounds like you would be more comfortable with a scrolling chat room where the messages drop off into oblivion in a minute or two. Even then, you wouldn't have any assurance that somebody wasn't capturing the information along the way.

Private Messages - If you use gmail or yahoo for email, do you really have any expectation that deleting an email means that it is deleted from their server? Unless you own the storage device, you should assume that any messages you send, be they private emails, private message, instant message, are going to exist someplace forever.

This NSA thing is probably good for us culturally. We'll have to start talking face to face with people again, just to ensure that our communications aren't being recorded.
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