On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 05:00:09AM -0700, Pete Jansson spake thusly: > This sounds like a good, cheap, fast answer, but I have worries when > it comes time to respond to an e-discovery request to find a > particular needle in that haystack. Those things can be
If you want to invest some more time in the project and depending on your coding skills you can pipe it all through Lucene via Solr. But in my experience we have always had at least a few days to find such things. Even just a plain dumb grep can cover many gigs of emails in a few days. > They should come up with the subjects and populations for saving all > email, and then establish a default retention period for everything > else. Definitely. I know of companies that specifically say DO NOT save emails. Keep it for a week (or month or whatever) and then make darn sure the email is gone. If you have a documented policy put into place before the legal issues arrive that says "All emails are to be deleted after a month" and you faithfully follow through on that policy it can not only reduce the technical need to have to archive years of emails but it can be legally safer since you have completely legally destroyed any evidence that might be discovered. -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org
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