> 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.
This is dubious. A judge can discard your data retention policy as "unreasonable", and that has happened in a couple of cases. In those cases the companies in question were using the we-just-delete-everything-right-away policy of something nearly that. You have to maintain communication for some "reasonable" period of time. If your projects, or billing cycle, etc... are a certain/average duration then your data retention policy should reflect that with some margin. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
