On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:50 AM, John Cook<[email protected]> wrote: > I'm sure you've gone on a rant once or twice about how stupid > someone was for doing something they know better than to do.
Er. Um. Who me? ;-) Okay, guilty as charged. > I don't think being able to restore any (as in all messages ever > sent or received) random message is a requirement for 99.99% > of the companies out there. Not that, per se. But consider: If it was easy to restore individual elements, one wouldn't necessarily need an expensive, separate add-on for archiving. One could simply keep archives as part of their backups (it's what we do), and restore elements if needed. Or one could archive to a separate set of media. One might be able to do away with deleted item retention entirely. Plus maybe other things I haven't thought of yet. I guess that last is really my point, that limitations are usually limiting (duh), and flexibility and openness are enabling, and in ways that may not be easily predicted. So I prefer the later. I've learned I rarely get everything the way I prefer. :) > ... there are shortcomings, as with every other piece of software on the > planet. Absolutely. > Well done! I suspect it's mostly luck, and a fairly understanding top management team, but thanks. :-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
