Ed, as usual, is correct. Depends what the risk is to people making binding commitments via email that may cost the company $$$. Email here is considered a public record (as indicated in our email policy).
Emails are easy to create/modify by the other party. Having an audit trail of mails sent/received may be of value to your company. I have every email that has gone through the mail gateway for the last 5 years on CD. This process is automated to the point where 18 months worth of detail in held in an oracle Db and the only human intervention is to write the monthly data on to CD's This may assist us in any litigation issues, and as a public company, we have nothing to hide. We keep archive tapes back to '89, when we arose from the ashes of about 30 public sector organisations I have has cases of senior managers needing e-mails from up to a year old that they had inadvertently deleted ( or told the other party they never received it) Our litigation processes here are not quickly and extensively used here in NZ, unlike *other* countries..... cheers Dean -----Original Message----- From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 29 May 2002 5:46 a.m. To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Archive Another way to look at it: What's the worth of old e-mail? Ed Crowley hp Services --- Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How long do most of you hold tapes? We are looking > to establish a > standard on how long to keep tapes in archived > before reintroducing them > back into the tape rotation to be overwritten. I > know there are many > differnent ways to look at this as far as cost per > tape, storage space, > legal aspects, and disaster recovery and wanted to > know what people > thought was a good period > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: > http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: > http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ********************************************************************** This email is not an official statement of the Waikato Regional Council unless otherwise stated. Visit our website http://www.ew.govt.nz ********************************************************************** _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
