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Deleting E-mail Could Get You In Trouble
Sterling D. Allan writes "A story in the Deseret News cautions governments and corporations from deleting legitimate email. Expensive measures are being called into place to archive the mail for future subpoena purposes. Think Enron on one hand. Think Monicagate on the other. Next they'll ask us to keep recordings of all our phone conversations? Big brother gets bigger -- with good reasons, as always. What about all those business propositions I get from Nigeria. Do I have to keep those too? "Get rich from home" (to pay for the purchase of a new hard drive to contain all your spam). One man's junk is another man's treasure. You never know what an IRS agent might find lucky."
One man's junk is another man's treasure. You never know what an IRS agent might find lucky.
Wait, what? Are you saying that IRS agents have small penises, and want to get rich from home, and want to gain a full cup size, and save Nigerian people from occupation?
Wow, a new low for slashdot. even the original submitter didnt read the article. Well, more low than new really.
I will forward all my work and home spam to the IRS for safekeeping.
While "Deleting E-mail Could Get You In Trouble," not deleting it. will make you blind.
I think it's called echelon...
Maybe we can save everyone a heap of trouble: forward all spam to the IRS instead of saving it.
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Unfortunately, document retention policies often conflict with other policies. At my company, all employees have a 100MB limit on their inboxes - it's a soft limit, but the warnings get nastier the longer you linger over 100MB, until an admin will eventually come and make you clean things up.
So how can I retain my email while staying under the cap? For a while, I archived everything to my network directory. Then I got slapped for using too much space on the server, we're not supposed to keep large amounts of "personal" documents on the network (apparently, my 350MB work-only email archive counts as a large amount or personal documents). So now it's archived to my local hard drive. If those emails are ever needed...no one but me will know they exist.
I'm told that before we were acquired by another company, our C*Os deleted everything from their email as soon as they were done with it. Less than 2MB used at any given time. Given how those guys acted "in the interests of the company" I'm sure they didn't want any of their email brought to light.
"But how do they know that what you sent was a personal email, without reading it?"
It's encrypted. Best possible way of marking your emails as "private", imho, closely followed by interspersing your personal emails with ones containing malicious javascript that your boss' computer is vulnerable to...
You should probably delete them, so that when they turn out to be true, you can't be sued for corporate malfeasance for not having responded appropriatly. :)
You've got to be kidding me. Are we all supposed to live under the threat of legal action? I don't give a shit about some lawyer or overpaid legal advisor telling me that it's to protect myself from liability... My business practices should not be centered around litigation. What the hell has this country become, and when is it going to change back? I better be careful, this message expressing subversive opinions may someday be used against me.
Man can you imagine getting a call from your boss complaining that you used the wrong coversheet on a TPS report you did 6 years ago.