Subject: Re: Security in Pine??

From: [email-masked] (Jie Yuan)
Date: 28 Oct 1996 19:22:48 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
	[email-masked] writes:
> After the deletion of the messages from your account, are there still
> records that are held in the central unit but it has already been
> deleted from your individual accounT?

By "central unit", you must have meant the mainframe computer
where your account is.  If so, you are right.  The files will
stay on the HD on that machine for a while.  How long they 
remain there depends on many factors.  If the disk is mostly
empty, the files can stay for very long time before they are 
overwritten.  However, system backups may not carry them 
since they are marked as deleted in the HD directory.

Hopefully, the system security is good enough so that your
emails are not read by others.

Just my 2c.

Jie 
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