On 21 Sep 2010 at 9:41, Bob Hartung wrote: > So much business is transacted through e-mail these days that a 90 day > retention policy seems impractical. If we tried to impose it here, I can > guarantee we'd have a revolt. Then if you forced it, people would start > squirreling away everything as hard copies and PDFs of e-mail, making it > just as difficult to search for it as documents as opposed to e-mails.
+1 ... I have clients whose email conversations with their clients often go back many years. There is no way they would agree to a formal email retention policy that would result in them losing access to those conversations as they are often about ongoing projects or projects that get revived after a dormancy period. > My recommendation to my management was to get a reasonable e-mail > archiving system that would make searching relatively easy and that the > impact of destroying valuable business communicatons in the interest of > avoiding the hassle of providing some e-mails in some possible future > lawsuit wouldn't make much sense in our case. > > Philosophically, if you are found guilty at some point in the future, > either you are guilty (shame on you) or you have been wasting a lot of > money on your lawyers :^) +1 except that no man (or company) can do business these days without falling afoul of some regulation. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
