On Jun 6, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Alan Wexelblat wrote:
I'm aware of the issues, but I'm uncomfortable with banning an entire class of discussion from the entirety of the mailing list. Is there a way to tag potentially risky messages so that people who cannot deal with these things can filter the messages without having to open them?
Opening them is not the problem. It's having their presence on your internal email servers to boot. When you get lawyers asking for information, they take everything to see what you have, because proving what you've read or not via email is difficult. So just it's presence is often what they are looking for.
An engineer friend of mine had his computers had all the email he ever sent of the past six to seven years subpoenaed for one patent lawsuit. And his computer at home, and pretty much every electronic piece of communication he ever did. They literally took all of his cached email and all the email stored on corporate servers that was sent to him and went through all of it, even the ones that had nothing to do with the case because they had check all of it to see what he knew and when he knew it. and then with that they get subpoenas to grab other people email related to what they found and keep going until they are satisfied or feel they've reached a dead end.
Literally, this is the kind of deal breaker point for many. Just the presence of the email on internal email servers whether it was clicked on to be read or not can be a massive headache.
I'm thinking of something like a secondary list (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) or a subject tag (similar to [EVENT]).
A secondary list that people can entirely avoid would be great (and would also go down the path of solving the Jobs and Events issue to boot). But if it was only a tagging a system where the message is still in the main digest but is only filtered on the client end may not be enough.
We're supposed to be clever designers here - can't we design a solution that meets the diverse needs of this group?
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