Boston City Government Discovers Email Retention

An anonymous reader writes "The Boston Globe, covering a battle to unseat the 16-year incumbent mayor, has found out that the city has no email retention policy. A city official who receives hundreds of emails a day was found to have only 18 emails in his mailbox. The city has enabled journaling on its Exchange server in response. The Globe also notes that they had to curtail requests for emails under the Open Records law because for each mailbox, 'City officials estimated they would charge $5,000 for six months worth of email.'"

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Re:No retention?

[Khyber]

You also need to be certified as a First Responder, because quite often you're the first on the scene and that means you're the first to provide medical support.

So, yes, firefighters DO need to be smart. Go figure such an ignorant statement would come from somewhere in the Navy.