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| Whitehouse Emails Were Lost Due to “Upgrade”                       |
|   from the upgrading-to-orwell dept.                               |
|   posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 30, @10:48 (Politics)      |
|   http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/30/1359209 |
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[0]I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “We now know how the
[1]Whitehouse managed to lose about five million emails. It seems that
they ‘upgraded’ their Lotus Notes system, which had an automatic
retention and backup system, for Microsoft Exchange, which did not
support the automatic system. So they changed it to a manual process,
where aides would manually sort emails one by one into individual PST
files, which they call a ‘journaling’ archive system. They’re still
building a replacement for the retention system. Right when they had one
finished, the White House CIO complained that it made Microsoft Exchange
too slow, so they hired yet another contractor to build another one,
causing a senior IT official to quit in protest. So they still haven’t
completed the project after almost eight years, and rely on humans to
sort millions of emails.”

Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/04/30/1359209

Links:
0. http://www.eff.org/support
1. http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/bush-lost-e-mails.ars