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I was working there when this happened, and I definitely remember thinking, "Well, no point in writing a detailed email full of information that will be useful
by raldi 4y ago
I was working there when this happened, and I definitely remember thinking, "Well, no point in writing a detailed email full of information that will be useful in the future, because in 30 days it'll be gone anyway."
Even more frustrating was finding myself in a situation where I remembered an old email that would be enormously helpful, either because of the information in it, or because I could reuse the bulk of something I had invested a lot of effort into writing, and knowing that this work was gone forever.
- telotortium 4y agoI always added all emails to me or cc me to the Indef label, which stops the email autodeletion.
- raldi 4y agoI tried that for a while, but eventually got a message from someone nose-bleedingly high up along the lines of, “If you’re reading this, you’re one of a very small number of employees who has marked more than X% of their mail as retain-indefinitely.” It was obvious they were reluctant to go on record telling us to knock it off, but that was the clear implication.
- telotortium 4y agoHuh, TIL. When did this happen? I left in January 2022. Also, perhaps the amount of mailing lists I was subscribed to (the messages of which I didn't retain unless they mentioned me) outweighed the messages that mentioned me. I could see running into an issue if you retained literally every message in your inbox.
- netheril96 4y agoEmail are retained for more than a year. Only instant chats are retained for 24h or 30d.
- anthlax 4y agoYep - I can’t help but wonder if this is a work of fiction since it is absolutely incorrect
- sanderjd 4y agoAlways wise to cc that kind of thing to a team-foo alias...