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To: Road Walker who wrote (333181)	4/14/2007 10:10:21 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1570837

I've been a system administrator in a multiple hat job, and I kept cheap tape backups so that I could restore the state of the server at every backup point (once a week) in time since I was given the job. But I'm no expert. I had a catastrophic server hard drive failure, and was able to restore everything except a few documents that had been put on the server since my last backup, copies of which were on users local machines anyway. I was sweating whether it would work, since it represented the labor of thirty people over two years! This was over 15 years ago. I can't imagine that the RNC doesn't have AT LEAST a similar setup. In addition to that, when you "erase" an email, it's still THERE unless you "scrub" the drive and write random data over it multiple times, which typically only happens if you reformat the drive or run special programs designed to do this. When "erased", the email's physical drive location is freed to be overwritten with new data is all that happens when you "erase" an email, which can be STILL be read sometimes by forensic snooper programs, even though it's been overwritten. Also, these emails were SENT to someone or someone's, so, they could exist on THEIR servers or machines, and perhaps forwarded and resent to many other servers and people, some of whom may have saved them specifically to CYA. It's best to assume ANYTHING you submit to the internet is still there, somewhere.

To: Road Walker who wrote (333181)	4/14/2007 11:51:16 AM
From: SilentZ	Respond to of 1570837

>I know nothing about the "forensics" of finding deleted email. It would seem that there there must be traces somewhere as they must go through multiple servers on the journey from point A to point B. Any experts on the thread? Yeah... I deal with several web and e-mail hosts. Suffice it to say that if you want to find any pretty much any e-mail badly enough, you can. -Z