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White House Email Follies
Presto Vivace forwards a link detailing a recent House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on the White House missing emails mess. David Gewirtz's report, carried in OutlookPower and DominoPower (in 6 parts, keep clicking), makes for scary reading. "If, in fact, the bulk of the White House email records are now stored in bundles of rotting PST files, all at or above their maximum safe load-level, that ain't good in a very big way... I object to using the inaccurate and inflated claim of excessive cost as a reason to avoid compliance with the Presidential Records Act."
I find the fact that the US Government runs on Lotus Notes more scary than the fact that they don't have any sort of backup strategy.
I bet if you go over to the IRS, those guys have a rock-solid backup going back many years.....
Someone just needs to 'leak' that one of those archived emails contains a transcript of Osama bin Laden endorsing Barack Obama for president. Then stand back because we are all going to be sprayed with WH archived emails.
Technically, murder-suicide does not violate the golden rule.
Elect a President who is a failure (Business, Baseball, Economics, & English) and see what happens. He's the Gym Teacher president
Those who can't do Teach, those who can't teach, Teach Gym.
I think it's more likely that G.W. doesn't use e-mail because he can't find the "sendification" button.
Based the general stream of diarrhea coming from the White House (especially this past week), I'll wager $500 that it's torture/bondage porn.
Have emails that you don't want any more, regulatory authorities breathing down your neck, keeping embarrassing emails becoming a worry, then switch to M$ exchange, we guarantee to 'legally' corrupt and destroy all those pesky records of your corruption, not one incriminating email shall survive.
Based upon the latest M$ Vista email shenanigans, that exchange pst excuse doesn't seem applicable for them. Although it presents an interesting marketing slant, the current US administration is basically stating that M$ exchange is an unsafe and defective record keeping format and should not be used if you want to keep long term accurate records.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
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And what is the default client to access Exchange? And the major reason why places deploy Exchange? Hint: it is not because it is a superior mail server.
We should get a "-1, Missing the point" moderation.
Mart"I know I will be modded down for this": where's the option '-1, Asking for it'?