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delete - locical, physical and hole

Just like Bob once mentioned about memory,
some programs don't release some when they are finished,
or when they terminate. Just because a database will "forget"
the address where a message is, and for all accounts it can be
termed a physical deletion, the software that moves the read/write
heads on the hard drive will still think, correctly, that the message
still does exist, as it does, and will not reuse those magnetic flip-flops.

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