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Many companies offer intentionally small email quotas to encourage expiration of messages beyond the legal data retention requirements. Should you get sued, you
by snprbob86 17y ago
Many companies offer intentionally small email quotas to encourage expiration of messages beyond the legal data retention requirements. Should you get sued, you don't want to reveal any more than absolutely required by law during discovery.
- tptacek 17y agoThen they should just auto-delete messages older than the retention period.
- BigDamnDeal 17y agoThey should do something, but I expect auto-deleting old messages would be an even worse solution.
- tptacek 17y agoIf the company thinks old email puts it in legal jeopardy, why should the mail be kept at all? I hear this excuse all the time, and "excuse" is exactly what I think it is.
- smcq 17y agoEasy, switch to twitter and logless instant messaging for primary communication. I bet productivity would go up anyway. Edit: I obviously meant a twitter-like internal service.
- tptacek 17y agoYou think a good strategy for companies concerned about legal discoverability of their internal information is for them to put it on Twitter?
- wglb 17y agoThis is handled by date-based expiration, so policies I have seen say that "the company policy is 60 days after which email is automatically deleted". There is no reason to have a quota for this purpose.