So How Much Email is Really Saved?

So a few weeks ago i wrote a blog post about your emails and how private they really are and in the end emails relaly get svaed to a huge document and are really never deleted...But how true is this? The article (http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/13/white.house.email/index.html) on www.cnn.com shows that many emails that include emails on very important topics show as the cia leak may be gone forever...These emails sent in the past few years already gone forever? Come on the goveremnt doesnt even save there own emails cause we know that they are saving ours...Some other emails that are missing including the karl rove issues...For all of you who didnt hear Karl was the center of a huge protest at American Univeristy (http://www.nbc4.com/news/11516096/detail.html) and these emails may be the answer but where are they?

are emails really private?

so having www.cnn.com as my homepage when i open my browser really pays off sometimes....So when i got on the Internet tonight i saw a video that was titled Emails could be career enders. (http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/business/2007/03/25/intv.office.email.etiquette.cnn&wm=11) I decided to watch this movie and what I found out really relates to this class...Basically real quick what i found out was that emails can be read by more people then you think...This email was more focused on business email accounts but really apply for all email..Emails are stored on giant tapes that can be read by many people down the line years away....This goes along with IMs and any other messages that you send over the Internet..So before you write your next email make sure what you put in it wont get you in trouble at all.