Keeping your e-mails excessively long means they can become evidence excessively long.
Regards, Orin Orin Rehorst Port of Houston Authority (Largest U.S. port in foreign tonnage) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (713)670-2443 Fax: (713)670-2457 TOPAS web site: <www.homestead.com/topas/topas.html> -----Original Message----- From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 4:59 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Archive As I've always said, document retention will benefit those organizations who act ethically. I don't think it makes sense to destroy all your evidence when those with an axe to grind keep all theirs. Those with nothing to hide shouldn't be hiding it. Ed Crowley hp Services --- Dean Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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] > > __________________________________________________ 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] _________________________________________________________________ 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]
