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You've Got Mail -- Tons Of It

Posted by timothy on from the city-that-reads-remember dept.

Daniel Goldman writes "The Baltimore Sun has an article about the City of Baltimore's email problem." A snippet: "Millions of old e-mail messages are clogging Baltimore's municipal computers, so the city is going to start automatically deleting any messages older than 90 days. A common practice in private business, the move raises questions when made by a municipality, which has a responsibility to retain certain public records." Goldman points out "Just think about all the potential law suits; 'if it's not there, they can't subpoena it.'"

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  1. Sad news ... Ronald Reagan, dead at 93 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just heard some sad news on news radio - 40th President/former-actor Ronald Reagan was found dead in his Bel Air home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you're a liberal dirtbag who cried in shame and horror at the fall of the Berlin Wall, there's no denying his tax cuts contributed to the Internet revolution of the late 1990's. Truly an American icon.

    1. Re:Sad news ... Ronald Reagan, dead at 93 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      What's the difference between "actor" and "President of the United States"?

  2. mod dHOwn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SLING 7ou can

  3. Re:Why not... by Sinful_Shirts · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I vote for cutting off their testes.

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