Would the college check everything before its deleted off the network? I'll explain inside. Help!?

Question

Me and a friend, jokingly were sending dirty e-mails to each other in college the other week, I of course, promptly deleted them before the lesson was over.
Someone then told me that everything deleted off student accounts went into a folder where the college checked everything before it was deleted off the network altogether.
Were they just trying to get me worried or is this actually possible?
The teachers can get access to my monitor and see what I'm doing when I'm actually logged on, but surely no one can check my deleted things, can they?

(I wasn't too sure where to post this question to, but decided the computers and internet would be best because I'm hoping perhaps there are some network experts around here. :P)

Answer 1

u've got good answers here.



DO NOT PUT ANYTHING IN AN EMALE THAT YOU WOULDN'T TELL YOUR MOTHER!!!!!!! AND BE PROUD OF IT!!!!!

Answer 2

There is no such thing as privacy on the Internet - especially on a school's or business network. Yes. all activity can be logged and with suspicion looked at.

I am sure that you signed an Internet agreement form. Look at what you signed!!

Answer 3

This is definitely possible and there is a 50-50 chance they are. Even if they don't look at every message they can easily scan them all for key phrases. A good rule of thumb in this day and age is to assume schools and employers are watching everything you do.

Answer 4

They are stored automatically, and depend on the IT people and policy, they could stay forever or get deleted after period, I doubt very much they will have time to check all deleted emails, thats also a point of privacy.