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> You have a contact you remember who emailed you three years about a thing... you'll never find them again. Same problem. So, I asked the company IT staff,
by akira2501 4y ago
> You have a contact you remember who emailed you three years about a thing... you'll never find them again.
Same problem. So, I asked the company IT staff, what is the recommended solution? The answer was "oh, just create a folder on your network drive, and drag-and-drop the .MSG files into there."
This answer was apparently vetted by the same company lawyers that came up with the 2 year retention policy in the first place. I don't have the courage to confirm this, but I really would like to ask them what the point of all this even is.
- ocdtrekkie 4y agoIf you make a personal copy it's not in the email system, and they can reasonably say they couldn't find it, since they aren't going to search everyone's desktops for errant emails.
- znep 4y agoEven Google can't solve all the downsides of things being in the cloud.
- eep_social 4y agoI understood that the goal is to reduce keyword hits during discovery therefore making the action active rather than passive is a favorable balance of concerns.