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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (1576)	6/2/1998 9:38:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 32873

If you book mark your private messages, you can still read them. If they were really that interesting to keep reading and reading....

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (1576)	6/2/1998 11:01:00 PM
From: David Lawrence	Respond to of 32873

Jeff, I seem to recall Brad commenting that they would be kept on the server for 60 days, or perhaps it was six months. Even if they are purged on a routine basis, it would be safe to assume that they exist on some backup media for an indefinite period. In our enterprise, we have backup tapes going back nearly a decade, and if compelled to we could retrieve data such as internal email that has been long forgotten. Bottom line: I'm confident that in most cases nothing short of a subpoena would cause SI to make a private message available to anyone other than the author or intended recipient. Nonetheless, if you don't want to run the risk of private messages being exposed, find another way to communicate the information, or don't communicate it. And, just in case I ever sent a PM that started with "Please don't tell anyone I told you this, but...", well, that wasn't really me - it must have been an imposter!!