The cellular provider probably does keep text or SMS messages in a log
or database file for some period of time but the city could also have
been using a product similar to this one:

http://www.gwava.com/blackberry/retain_overview.php


Cheers,

    Gerry 

-----Original Message-----
From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Trudy M Phillips
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 9:08 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Text messages

I am sure this will in RAIN but today I saw in the paper where 14,000
retrieved  text messages indicate that the Detroit mayor lied about an
affair he was having.
Personally, I thought text messages died from your phone after  awhile.

Guess not.  So does that mean that the Wireless phone carrier  has them
in their electronic files for an extended period of time. Much the same
way that they do have a record of your incoming and outgoing phone calls
I  guess Technology is making our jobs as RIM's more deep and thought
provoking by the hour.
So beware what you  send by Text message!
 
Trudy M.  Phillips
File Management, LLC
"Bringing Order Out of  Chaos"
8440 Lanewood Circle
Leeds, AL 35094
Office:  205/699-8571   Fax: 205/699-3278 
_www.filemanagement.com_ (http://www.filemanagement.com/) Now  also in
Huntsville AL



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