> If the government is interested in something from my mail servers, I'll see the legal request or judges orders and will know what is going on, and will be abl

> If the government is interested in something from my mail servers, I'll see the legal request or judges orders and will know what is going on, and will be able to take appropriate action. Or the mail servers of the person/people you're communicating with. At which point you wouldn't know, because they'd be subject to the same laws, and less well equipped to fight them.