On Oct 15, 2009, at 12:34 PM, Pete Jansson wrote: > Also, Jo - it may be worth talking to compliance and legal (together) > about the requirement to save "all" email. Some regulations require
My requirements came directly from the legal team ;-) > nearly-perpetual archiving of some email, but those archives are all > discoverable in a dispute, so large archives of everything can > actually increase an organization's risk, rather than decrease it. I can't explain why, but in this situation they want to make *everything* discoverable and EASY. It's a "thick file" situation. > Legal and compliance should not try to make this a technology problem > by saying "just save everything." They should come up with the > subjects and populations for saving all email, and then establish a > default retention period for everything else. Anything that doesn't > explicitly need to be retained should be destroyed irrevocably, and on > a regular basis. This is a special situation and the requirements are very clear. I can't really explain, but suffice to say the need to save absolutely everything for this one team is absolute and essential. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness _______________________________________________ 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/
