Feds want your e-mails

A story in the Deseret Morning News ("To delete or keep: E-mail is a problem," Aug. 8) cautions governments and corporations from deleting legitimate e-mail. Expensive measures are being called into place to archive the mail for future subpoena purposes. Think Enron on one hand. Think Monicagate on the other. Next they'll ask us to keep recordings of all our phone conversations.

Big brother gets bigger — with good reasons, as always. What about all those business propositions I get from Nigeria? Do I have to keep those? One man's junk is another man's treasure. You never know what an IRS (or other ABC) agent might find lucky.

Sterling D. Allan

Ephraim