[conspire] email retention WAS: VPN

[paulz at ieee.org]

 Some businesses / industries have requirements to retain email for many years, essentially forever.  
Individuals have different ideas. My #1 rule about email security is don't use email unless you wouldn't mind seeing it in the Mercury News. I don't think the Mercury would want to reprint this email thread.  My financial advisor and estate lawyer both have private portals which are used for any sensitive information.  
I do not use a gmail account but was somewhat amused about some promotion that claimed to make the system more secure by deleting messages.  
A little research says that Someone using gmail account can set an expiration date on messages they send. On the expiration date, the recipients copy of the message is erased.   It may only work if the recipient also is using gmail.   But the sender has to remember to clear his sent folder.   And I think I read that gmail deletes files from TRASH after  30 days.
For the record, I recently looked up some emails from last summer and replied with more recent information.





    On Sunday, December 5, 2021, 11:12:37 PM PST, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:  
 
 Quoting Paul Zander (paulz at ieee.org):

< VPN discussion deleted >

> On a slightly different topic, I recently read something from Google
> saying they help security by deleting emails after 90 days.  No thank
> you.  It is not uncommon to want to get in touch with someone after
> many months.   For example, old college friends who I message only on
> special occasions. 
> 
> Not sure how deleting old messages helps security, but it does save G
> storage space.  Comments?

Perhaps someone else will be able to help you, on that.  I don't 
rely on outsourced data at Google.



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