[projectramo]

Well, okay so this is not a question of the law, or the internal Department of State rules. You're bringing up the question of intent. Why would someone set up a personal homebrew server?

So let me first sort out a number of motives:

1. They may think that a private sector service is puts government documents in private hands which they might consider to be bad.

2. She may not be acquainted with the security differences between the homebrew server and yahoo mail. (I am not. I would assume that a competent technical person with off the shelf software could make it fairly secure.)

I don't know if we must impute nefarious motives from a personal homebrew server.