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Now we'll see if Thunderbird will make saving sent mail opt-in for each message, for privacy. How many of your email conversations need to be preserved forever
by markstos 7y ago
Now we'll see if Thunderbird will make saving sent mail opt-in for each message, for privacy.
How many of your email conversations need to be preserved forever?
We certainly don't walk around with an audio recorder to record every word we speak in person to people in case we want to refer back to them later.
Email defaulted to storing messages years ago because it seemed cheap and valuable. Some value remains, but we no live an era of doxing and data dumps where saved communications can be a liability as well.
- reflectiv 7y ago> We certainly don't walk around with an audio recorder to record every word we speak in person to people in case we want to refer back to them later. ...not to play devils advocate, but... No we don't need it, but just like with email...that would be quite useful in many circumstances.
- ohyeshedid 7y agoFor that to be useful, the recipients on the other end would need to also delete the email. Otherwise, you've completely given control of that email content to everyone but yourself.