21.   In response to the instructions from the Houston auditors, documents were shredded and e-mail messages were deleted.

22.   Most e-mail programs let you delete incoming messages automatically.

23.   One employee, a bank legal assistant, deleted the message halfway through.

24.   Park deleted the message, figuring someone was playing a trick on him.

25.   Prosecutors say that under New York state law, a firm that deleted e-mail messages which it was required to maintain could be found guilty of falsifying business records.

26.   Rabe said that unless people deleted the messages they did not need, servers could have overflowed and crashed, possibly losing all old messages.

27.   Spam also is costly to corporations because employees often waste time each day deleting unwanted messages.

28.   The e-mail interface lets the user create, edit, forward, copy and delete messages.

29.   The messages were deleted from system discussion sites used by gays, Jewish groups, Muslims, feminists and other politically oriented groups.

30.   The site declares the right to edit or delete unsuitable messages.