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One word: Discovery As in, "Whenever we are sued, we have to undergo Discovery, and they find all those email we really wish had never seen the light of day...
by ghshephard 14y ago
One word: Discovery
As in, "Whenever we are sued, we have to undergo Discovery, and they find all those email we really wish had never seen the light of day..."
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- hnriot 14y agoTheir FAQ says they delete the server copy after 7 days
- abcd_f 14y agoAs in, "Dog ate my homework"? That should work with feds, no problem.
- mpyne 14y ago"Not only did we not know that we were required to retain these emails, we went out of our way to ensure they /couldn't/ be retained. Whelp, oh well!"
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- objclxt 14y agoIf, as a public corporation, you were to do that you'd end up being sued anyway. Sarbanes-Oxley not only requires e-mail retention, but the SEC can impose significant fines if e-mails end up 'disappearing'. To put it another way: if you turned around during discovery and told the other party you'd deliberately used a system that caused all your e-mails to self-destruct you could expect to be destroyed in court.
- ghshephard 14y agoEDS had a 20 Megabyte Email quota in 2002/2003 in order to "conserve resources" - basically meant there was a 30-45 day window before you had to start deleting email.