I'm curious how keeping mail "forever" fits into a policy about email retention for Federal Discovery (FRCP). I just have a hard time believing that people have policies saying they will keep their emails/documents forever; much less being able to produce them.
-----Original Message----- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 5:26 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Single Instance Storage ratio survey Yeah, but then you have the guys that try to keep every @#...@#% email since the dawn of time in their mailbox. At least you're archiving it off somewhere. I have guys that have up to (6) 2GB personal folders of "stuff", only because I impose limits on the mailboxes. Okay, okay... fangs in... hackles down... -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 4:18 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Single Instance Storage ratio survey On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Tim Vander Kooi <tvanderk...@expl.com> wrote: > ... the higher the SI Ratio number ... the worse job your users are > doing of cleaning their mailboxes regularly. This idea that one shouldn't use an email system to store email always seemed kind of strange to me. Keep in mind that I'm quite religious about filing mail. My inbox is usually empty, and my "Inbox/todo" folder typically has < 20 messages in it. But I've got hundreds of folders of archived mail, all carefully sorted by project, application, category, etc. It totals around 500 MB for the four years I've been at this company. No idea how many messages. It's all in Public Folders, too, so that the rest of the IT department (i.e., one other guy :-) ) can find stuff if needed. > Unless of course you are in the legal industry or something > similar where all correspondence must be kept forever. Many people, including myself and many of my cow-orkers, are in the habit of retaining business correspondence "forever", just on general principles. I know we've frequently encountered situations where a customer will come back to us five years later alleging something, and it's only been the saved mail which has saved our butts. -- Ben ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~