In the corporate world, the generally accepted internal policy is that email is not a system of record Saying "email is not a system of record" is lot like say

In the corporate world, the generally accepted internal policy is that email is not a system of record Saying "email is not a system of record" is lot like saying "RAID is not a backup". Just because you don't use reliable a long term storage medium doesn't mean you don't have and use those records. It doesn't even fly contrary to e-discovery, it's just a difference in multiple contextual definitions of "record."