Just looking on the other side of the coin pst files being kept is like keeping books bought in your bookshelf :-) if only people would keep only the important mails.
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Niles Collins <[email protected]>wrote: > The line has to be drawn between emails and documents. We constantly deal > with users that store all their documents in attachments in a PST file. I > had one lady with a 12GB PST. The actual emails were not important just the > attachments. We were able to recover the files PST using the scanpst tool > but not the folder structure. She was still pissed about that. The head of > my department actually had to lay down the law with her. It was a big deal > to her just nobody else. Not even her manager! > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 26, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Mike Barnard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:24 PM, sanga collins <<[email protected]> > [email protected]> wrote: > >> regardless of company policy (ours is email servers are for emails) users >> routinely resist archiving or maintaining their mailbox. the excuse is >> always that " i need all these emails from 2005 because i might have to >> access the attached spreadsheet or contract pdf" if the spread sheet or >> contract is that important, then why not save it properly in a secure >> location. >> >> > Collins, > > I may be tempted to say that there is a bit of disregard for many other > things. I worked for a company that requires email to be retained for a > minimum period of 3 years and at most 5 years, yes, 5 years and have them in > such a way that if any one of the staff want to retrieve an email that was > received on the 21st of October 2007 at 1423 HRS, they should be able to > retrieve it at a click of a button. > > You may say, 'regardless of company policy', but where the law requires > that you retain email for a minimum period of 5 years, are you going to tell > them that i keep emails on my server for 3 years? I still say that there is > archiving for that option. Archive every 3 or 6 months. But where company > policy calls for retaining of the emails, as an employee you oblige and do > as the policy says, not as I would prefer. > > Everybody has got needs based on the policy their company prescribes. We > may never understand why people use email as their document storage, I > believe it is up to us to better educate the folk using these systems that > we know so well on how best they can use their email and how best they can > store their documents. > > Regards > > > -- > Mike > > Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in > a million chances happen 99% of the time. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM <http://www.infocom.co.ug/> > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > > -- Cheers, RN.
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