I would say that some of the emails for some users are 50% personal in nature. I've had conversations with the users asking them to not use the schools email for personal use. We only have about 25 accounts so I don't know what I would do if I had a hundred users.
Dana Fellows Computer Technology Instructor / Network Administrator Whiteside Area Career Center 1608 Fifth Avenue Sterling, IL 61081 Email, dfell...@wacc.cc Website, www.wacc.cc Phone: 815-626-5810 ext. 206 Available via phone between 2:30 and 3:30 PM Central Time MCP, MCSA, MCSE, A+, Network+, CIW AAS - Network Administration BA - Information Systems MS - Instructional Technology -----Original Message----- From: tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org [mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org] On Behalf Of hay...@sages.us Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 2:14 PM To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] Email Archives Our supt just went to a session on the legalities of this very thing. You need to set a district policy on how long you are going to keep your archives and then deleted them when they get past that date. Also, you don't need to archive EVERY email. Set a policy on how you will differentiate between what needs to be kept and what doesn't and only keep the ones that need to be kept. Of course there is no good technilogical way to make this determination so most are taking the easy way out and archiving everything. But it is not necessary to do so. But at least set a policy on how long you will keep the emails and get the board - and supt - to approve the policy. We are getting ready to have those meetings and set such a policy. Archiving all messages for eternity is not an option. Quoting Dana Fellows <tech-l...@fellowstech.com>: > What are some of you techs doing when your email archives start reaching > terabyte(s) in size? I guess I'll put them on large hard drives and put them > in a safe or something. > > > > Dana Fellows > > Computer Technology Instructor / Network Administrator > Whiteside Area Career Center > > 1608 Fifth Avenue > > Sterling, IL 61081 > > Email, dfell...@wacc.cc > > Website, www.wacc.cc > > Phone: 815-626-5810 ext. 206 > > Available via phone between 2:30 and 3:30 PM Central Time > > > > MCP, MCSA, MCSE, A+, Network+, CIW > > AAS - Network Administration > BA - Information Systems > MS - Instructional Technology > > > > > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |