First, emptying the Junk E-mail folder (i.e., right-clickEmpty Junk
E-mail) does not move anything to the Deleted Items bin. Emptying the
Junk E-mail folder is a permanent delete for the items in it.

You're incorrect. Emptying Junk sends it to the bin - on my machine anyway.

Secind, by definition
there should be nothing "useful" in the Deleted Items folder, just like
there's nothing useful in the wastebasket in your bathroom or kitchen,
since you don't put anything in a wastebasket that you want to keep.

Eh? It is easy to accidentally delete useful items, particularly if you
synchronise with a PDA.

Ric wrote:

You're incorrect. Emptying Junk sends it to the bin - on my machine
anyway.

Then your machine is different, but I suspect that most machines would
behave as does mine: Outlook 2003. Naturally I tested prior to posting.

Eh? It is easy to accidentally delete useful items, particularly if
you synchronise with a PDA.

Naturally everyone had accidentally deleted something (although my years of
using a PDA don't indicate that PDAs make that more likely), but your
statement, "distinguishing themselves from genuinely useful unread items
that might also be in the bin," seemed to me to indicate that you use the
bin for storing useful items. I'll concede that may be a wrong impression
and you weren't trying to convey that, but it doesn't change the fact that
keeping useful items in the Deleted Items fodler is, in general, a bad idea.
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Brian Tillman