Dear application programmers: I understand that you like to providea history of recent documents, for whatever reason. But in today'senvironment, if you store any sort of history like this you should andin fact really must provide some way of purging that history. Ideallyyou would also provide a way to turn off keeping this history, too.

This does not have to be a prominent feature or element of your UI;Firefox puts their version of this in a preferences pane and a menuentry, and I