As someone else said, document yourself and your objections (in e-mail and on paper) with copies to appropriate parties. You can bet the legal dept. is doing exactly that and for the same reason.
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Liddil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 11:57 AM Subject: RE: Policy issue Our lawyer is quite familiar with our business and what we do. Not to defend lawyers or anything. They are well versed in the 21CFR11 and FDA issues we face along with the legal implications of having "no policy" as we do now. So by default our policy for me to follow becomes keep everything and make sure backups are archived for 5 years. No system is perfect but the fact is that if you have no policy it then gives a lawyer who walks in the door for "discovery" purposes the right to sit and look over my shoulder while I go through all the IS and tapes. Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 12:33 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Policy issue > > > It's unlikely that you or the system itself has the ability > to delete mail in accordance with a well written retention > policy (no offense, I've been researching this subject for a > book for quite some time). If your legal counsel has simply > given you a retention policy of something like 'everything > older than 120 days should go' then I'd respectfully suggest > you ask your legal counsel to revisit the policy as it's > woefully inadequate.. especially for a company such as yours. > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Liddil > To: Exchange Discussions > Sent: 10/4/2002 9:00 AM > Subject: Policy issue > > I seem to be facing resistance from management on > implementation of an e-mail policy. Despite everything our > legal counsel provided and such are not ready to go forward. > They have a problem with either the system of myself deleting > mail that past the retention period. Some feel that a member > of management should be the one deleting the e-mail. I'm > sure you can see what's wrong with that picture. I am > looking for advice, besides sit on my hands and wait until an > event happens that forces them to implement a policy. > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
