Are There Any Smart E-mail Retention Policies?

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 26, 2008 @11:30AM from the don't-use-email-any-more dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In an age of litigation and costly discovery obligations, many organizations are embracing policies which call for the forced purging of e-mail in an attempt to limit the organization's exposure to legal risk. I work for a large organization which is about to begin destroying all e-mail older than 180 days. Normally, I would just duck the house-cleaning by archiving my own e-mail to hard-drive or a network folder, but we are a Microsoft shop and the Exchange e-mail server is configured to deny all attempts to copy data to an off-line personal folder (.PST file). The organization's policy unhelpfully recommends that 'really important' e-mails be saved as Word documents. Is anybody doing this right? What do Slashdot readers suggest for a large company that needs to balance legal risks against the daily information and communication needs of its staff?"

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Re:Don't break the law... by xaxa · 2008-07-26 12:07 · Score: 1, Flamebait

1. Relocate your company to another country with better laws and without the "Sue! Sue! Sue!" culture.
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3. Probably less profit, the taxes are likely to be higher than the USA.