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| Are There Any Smart E-mail Retention Policies?                     |
|   from the don’t-use-email-any-more dept.                          |
|   posted by timothy on Saturday July 26, @19:30 (Communications)   |
|   http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/26/2219246 |
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An anonymous reader writes “In an age of litigation and costly discovery
obligations, many organizations are embracing policies which call for the
forced purging of e-mail in an attempt to limit the organization’s
exposure to legal risk. I work for a large organization which is about to
begin destroying all e-mail older than 180 days. Normally, I would just
duck the house-cleaning by archiving my own e-mail to hard-drive or a
network folder, but we are a Microsoft shop and the Exchange e-mail
server is configured to deny all attempts to copy data to an off-line
personal folder (.PST file). The organization’s policy unhelpfully
recommends that ‘really important’ e-mails be saved as Word documents. Is
anybody doing this right? What do Slashdot readers suggest for a large
company that needs to balance legal risks against the daily information
and communication needs of its staff?”

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