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Exactly.. But the funny thing is as an IT admin at hospital, I have seen people who literally were saving mail in their trash folder in hopes to "archive" then got mad when we did some house keeping in Exchange.

Hyrum's law strikes again! Perhaps users wouldn't have been surprised if the deletion policy had been applied consistently.

Yeah, but most non-technical people see that their gmail is full, try deleting a bunch of emails, see that it didn't help, and then have to buy more space. They're not aware there's a trash, they perhaps don't even use Drive at all. They just know that what they're doing isn't working.

> one way Google scams

If you see a sentence like this, you can be certain you don't have an interlocutor that is acting in good faith.