On Wednesday, May 2, 2001, at 07:45 AM, David Honig wrote:
> At 08:05 PM 5/1/01 -0500, Aimee Farr wrote:
>> For
>> example, while there is no 'requirement' or 'reg' to keep email,
>> American
>> courts have '$trongly $ugge$ted' doing so pursuant to a good faith
>> electronic document retention policy. See Lewy, Prudential.
>
> Actually, many corps have explicitly decided to shred their email
> after a
> while.
> You can thank Ollie North & the MS judges for cluing in the public. So
> the
> corp counsels are actively blowing off the suggestion you're claiming.
>
IBM was collecting memos and mail and shredding it back in the 70s,
related to the Justice Department persecution of it. A "clean desk"
policy was in effect at many facilities.
Likewise, when I was Intel there was a similar policy of getting rid of
stuff.
I think the Ollie North episode pointed out something different: that
deleting e-mail is not enough, as system backups of the PROFS system
allowed recovery of damaging e-mail.
--Tim May
