On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
I used to work for a company that made compliance solutions for email and IM monitoring and archiving, and I'm pretty aware of the situation. Ask me over a beer some time and I'll tell you the "Paris Hilton" story. User research in this domain was FUN! That said, I think it's a well-understood fact that people cannot control what email is sent to them, and all email systems record information such as whether or not a mail message is read. I recognize your desire never to have such messages appear in your inbox - it's always easier never to have to answer the question, but I'm unwilling to restrict the discussion of a list of hundreds of people when alternatives are available. As noted, you can go to reading the list via Web interface and have NO messages from the list appear in your inbox. > Occam's Razor comes to mind here. Clever is not the solution imho. Your alternative to "clever" seems to be "prohibition", which is both infeasible and, in my opinion, undesirable. New people will constantly join the list and be unaware of past discussions on this topic. You cannot wholesale ban an entire category of natural discussion by fiat simply because you work in an unusually restrictive environment. So, please, be a little more clever with me here. Best, --Alan ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
