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DEL

Abbreviation for:
deletion
deltoid
delusion
Departmental Expenditure Limit
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While the suggestion that a disabled delete key may seem like an extreme scenario, the concept behind it is important: Business email should not be deleted until the organization has some way to archive and, more importantly, retrieve email.
Then forget it and reacquaint yourself with the delete key.
Most people think that hitting the delete key actually deletes a file.
There are definitely some sorts of letters that would be improved with easy access to a delete key.
As with athletes who say they are playing one game at a time, against five or 10 at a time, I'm hitting my brain's delete key one um and er a time.
almost activates the delete key on the real people in the real neighbourhoods.
When you hit the delete key, your mail program can just update its internal records to mark that message's location as vacant.
Powerfully revealing communications of the type that never before existed now remain accessible, despite usage of the delete key. The human propensity to express galactically stupid thoughts in writing, the technology to retrieve them, and the breathtakingly reckless (if not criminal) acts of corporate wrongdoing have combined to induce adversaries to seek production of enormous quantities of information in the hope that something may exist to prove their worst allegations.
Mark Rey, the head of the Forest Service and a former lobbyist for sawmills, is making liberal use of the delete key on existing forest protection laws.
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