I dont understand why you wouldnt want to comply with policy? The reason the lawyers have made this decision is because of ediscovery. If their is a policy (and technical restraints) to not keep stuff past 60 days, then they cant be requested to discover email and documents older than that.
Sounds like you are looking for a good way of being fired! $0.02 On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Craig Freyman <[email protected]>wrote: > Our lawyers are demanding a drastic change in the way we handle email at > our company. This will be a huge change for our working culture here and I > am anticipating major backlash from the users, but "It is what it is." I > was hoping the pauldotcom list would think of ways around their policy. I'll > have to develop controls to try and stop people from doing so. > > Here is what they want to do: > Only keep 60 days of email, everything will be deleted on a rolling basis. > You can choose to save specific emails to your home drive and that space > will be capped. > > Putting my nefarious user hat on, these are the ways around the policy as I > see it: > > - Upload email to a dropbox type account. > - Saving to USB drives > - Accessing webmail from a non-company computer and saving it there > - CD Burning > - Forwarding to external email accounts IE gmail, hotmail > - Saving to other places on the network > > Anyone have any other ideas? > > Thanks, > Craig > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >
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