Yahoo cannot stop all these requests for money from Africa or bogus lottery winnings. Probably safer to communicate on stationery- in code- with invisible ink!//Seriously, our USA culture demands we appear on some tv show and air our dirty laundry as if to prove we exist. Maybe that was the purpose of mother's monogrammings and engravings in her day and age. Who knows?
On Oct 12, 4:56�am, "[ the last patriotic Republican ]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > State scrambles to gather Gov. Sarah Palin private > e-mailshttp://www.adn.com/palin/story/552319.html > The state is bustling to try to comply with a court order issued today > that requires Gov. Sarah Palin and everyone else in the governor's > office to preserve all e-mails issued from private accounts that > concern state business. > > The state didn't fight activist Andree McLeod's request for a > temporary restraining order to force Palin, the GOP vice presidential > nominee, and her office to hold onto the private e-mails, said Mike > Mitchell, an assistant attorney general. Anchorage Superior Court > Judge Craig Stowers ruled largely for McLeod after a hearing today. > > "We entered into the hearing ... willing to work to preserve those e- > mails that do relate to state business that may have been sent to or > from private accounts to the extent they can be preserved at this > point," Mitchell said. > > The state is going to try to find out which governor's office > employees used private e-mails for state business and then try to > preserve those e-mails and pull them into the state's e-mail system, > he said. > > McLeod, a former state employee who has run for office several times, > filed a lawsuit against Palin over the governor's use of private e- > mail, outside the secure state system. > > Palin had at least two private Yahoo accounts and used one for state > business. A couple of other employees in the governor's office, Ivy > Frye and Frank Bailey, also used private e-mail accounts for state > work at times. But it's not clear how widespread the practice has > been. Close to 90 people have worked in the governor's office since > Palin took office in December 2006, counting those in the Office of > Management and Budget and the lieutenant governor's office. Mitchell > said he believed the practice was minimal. > > Palin's Yahoo accounts were canceled in September after a Tennessee > college student allegedly reset her password, got into one of the > accounts and posted screen shots of her inbox and a couple of messages > onto a publicly available Web site. > > ADVERTISEMENT > > Separate from the Yahoo accounts, Bailey set up another private e-mail > system this spring for Palin and some of her insiders, according to > the Washington Post. > > Mitchell said he'll have to work with the governor's office and the > technical support staff to figure out how to pursue the e-mails that > may still be in the possession of Yahoo or other e-mail service > providers. > > According to Yahoo, once a user deletes an e-mail, "the actual message > content may take a couple of days to a couple of months to be > completely eliminated from our storage facilities." > > Any recovered e-mails will be released in response to requests for > public information, if they are not otherwise exempt, Mitchell said. > McLeod and others have been seeking Palin's e-mails. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
