What happens to users' data if their account is deleted?

I manage a number of macs in our lab. People come and go, and now it's time to delete some old accounts. If I just delete an account in the "accounts" section of system preferences, do their home directories and files therein get automatically deleted or do I need to go in and do it by hand (or else have a bunch of owner-less files taking up my disk space)? What's the best way to delete an account and everything owned by that user?
Mike

You get the choice. When you delete an account through System Preferences it will ask you if you want to delete their homespace immediately. If you say yes it trashes the homespace, otherwise you get a disk image of the homespace in the /Users/Deleted Users folder. HTH.
-NifflerX

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(removed) you, Verizon Wireless.
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