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I strongly doubt that Harvard still has the e-mails of graduated students from five years ago. If they did, they would not let go of them easily. It's possible
by thinkcomp 15y ago
I strongly doubt that Harvard still has the e-mails of graduated students from five years ago. If they did, they would not let go of them easily. It's possible Facebook subpoenaed Harvard for the messages that Mark should have had anyway, but that just sounds absurd to me, unless there was some strategic reason to use Harvard's copy of the e-mail account.
- jedberg 15y agoThe strategic advantage is that it lends a lot more credence to the case if the messages came straight from Harvard's copies, because Harvard is a lot easier to trust in this case than Mark. ie. They would probably be unaltered coming from Harvard.
- thinkcomp 15y agoAs long as by "probably" you mean "just as likely to be [unaltered] as from any other active POP3/IMAP e-mail account." :)
- jedberg 15y agoYes, that is what I meant. :) But in theory Harvard would have records of such modifications, or backups, or something that is more trustworthy than Mark's copies of the emails.
- nahlyee 15y agoIf Harvard doesn't have a record of the damaging emails, couldn't it just be because they've been deleted? Barring the mushroom conviction, Zuckerberg has an even greater (albiet shorter) history of alleged shady dealings as Ceglia. I figure the two parties about equal in terms of credibility.
- dgabriel 15y agoI'm at HBS, not the university proper, but I'm not surprised. I'm not precisely sure when we destroy the backups, or if there is a policy in place for doing so, but I do know that if one of our faculty members needs to recover a five year old email, we sure as hell better be able to do that. Tape is cheap enough.