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Is it common to want to keep all that history? My understanding was it's best practice to delete chats after a certain period to limit the surface area of any p

Is it common to want to keep all that history? My understanding was it's best practice to delete chats after a certain period to limit the surface area of any potential legal discovery.

daxelrod 7y ago
Ah, but Slack doesn't delete the history either unless you pay them: https://slack.com/help/articles/203457187-Customize-message-and-file-retention-policies https://slack.com/help/articles/203457187-Customize-message-... On the free tier it's still there, on their servers.
selectodude 7y ago
For a lot of industries, deleting internal communication is illegal. For any publicly traded company in the US, all internal communication needs to be archived for five years.
- quanticle 7y ago
  And it's equally emphasized, at many of those organizations, that all communication older than 5 years is deleted. Nobody wants to be burned by an ill-considered statement made in a decade-old IM conversation.
- rsanek 7y ago
  Do you have a source for this? I couldn't find anything regarding the 5 year time frame. I did find [0] which references a few different retention periods, especially at 7 years. [0] https://www.intradyn.com/email-retention-laws/ https://www.intradyn.com/email-retention-laws/
  - bradly 7y ago
    It's part of SOX. It actually requires the data be unencrypted, immutable, and available offline. Most corporations (large and small) do not follow this for email, messaging, wikis and many other services.