Old emails, forwading and auto delete ( Archived) (2)

I have been here awhile. Over the years here, at least 4 maybe more, I have corresponded with a lot of folk. Many emails I keep. It is a good way of tracking who you have already explored the potential of. Recently I got a friend request here from someone whose picture I instantly recognized as someone I previously wrote. I checked the profile because although the user name seemed different than I remembered, I remembered something else. Yep, same person, her job is unique.

So I go into my email box and attempt to pull up the old mail, to verify the user name. I am somewhat upset at learning all the mails before 2014 are simply gone. I mean ALL of them, not just that persons. That stings. Some became friends and their personal email addresses and phone numbers, etc. were in those emails. Some with personal photos too.

I keep my emails on CS simply because CS does not allow me to forward them to my own computer's email for archival storage. I do understand that for reasons of space a policy of auto delete if a mail is more than XXX days old may be necessary. However, who owns this private communication? A warning or a posted policy statement warning of auto-deletion after so many days is needed somewhere. I can copy paste the emails to a Word document, and would have had I been aware of the auto delete policy, but there was no posted policy, and no warning notice sent. The emails and private contact information in them just suddenly vanished at some time in the past. A decade or so back Hotmail redid their website and in the process all the old emails were purged. However, they were polite enough to give me 30 days advance notice so I could copy or forward elsewhere what I wanted to archive.

My suggestion here is that we be allowed to forward emails and also that the auto delete policy be posted in an obvious place so no one else experiences the problem.

BTW, I sent the person sending the friend request an email referencing a prior conversation (which I TG remembered) and asking if she has changed her handle. She writes back she has always had the name and she doesn't remember the prior conversations. I wonder if her account has been copied or something, but with a new name. No way to tell now because the original emails are gone. Danger Will Robinson, Danger