There is a fairly good white paper on this subject here: http://www.ferris.com/
Look for White Paper: Email Archiving & Records Management in the sponsored research section. It also lists a number of vendors that can accommodate your needs. -----Original Message----- From: James Liddil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 2:00 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Policy issue I agree. So if I read right you are suggesting this should be a completely automated process. So I should buy into a KVS type solution or does messageone have something. :-). I'd be happy to use the Mailbox Manager in E2K if I was allowed to. And yes I know it's my job, but I sure the heck don't want to spend a week or more manually going through our IS with a lawyer looking over my shoulder. Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 1:44 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Policy issue > > > Well, I'd join management in their resistance of an IT guy, > no matter how talented being the one to manually delete mail > on a retention period, even if the policy contains proper > exclusions for items which need to be retained longer (some > of which need to be retained significanly longer than a 5 > year tape rotation). Sorry, I don't think it's an efficient > use of someone that talented and it's too prone to human error. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: James Liddil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 11:57 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: RE: Policy issue > > > > > > Our lawyer is quite familiar with our business and what we do. Not > > to defend lawyers or anything. They are well versed in the 21CFR11 > > and FDA issues we face along with the legal implications of having > > "no policy" as we do now. So by default our policy for me to follow > > becomes keep everything and make sure backups are archived for 5 > > years. No system is perfect but the fact is that if you have no > > policy it then gives a lawyer who walks in the door for "discovery" > > purposes the right to sit and look over my shoulder while I go > > through all the IS and tapes. > > > > Jim > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 12:33 PM > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > Subject: RE: Policy issue > > > > > > > > > It's unlikely that you or the system itself has the ability to > > > delete mail in accordance with a well written retention > policy (no > > > offense, I've been researching this subject for a book for quite > > > some time). If your legal counsel has simply given you a > retention > > > policy of something like 'everything older than 120 days > should go' > > > then I'd respectfully suggest you ask your legal counsel > to revisit > > > the policy as it's woefully inadequate.. especially for a company > > > such as yours. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: James Liddil > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > Sent: 10/4/2002 9:00 AM > > > Subject: Policy issue > > > > > > I seem to be facing resistance from management on > implementation of > > > an e-mail policy. Despite everything our legal counsel > provided and > > > such are not ready to go forward. > > > They have a problem with either the system of myself deleting > > > mail that past the retention period. Some feel that a member > > > of management should be the one deleting the e-mail. I'm > > > sure you can see what's wrong with that picture. I am > > > looking for advice, besides sit on my hands and wait until an > > > event happens that forces them to implement a policy. > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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] _________________________________________________________________ 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]
