Wow! That's not long at all.... The reason I was asking about SOX requirements was that I thought we could "pretend" we were publicly traded and go by those rules. It wouldn't surprise me if congress mandates SOX or something like it for *everyone* eventually, publicly traded companies or not.
I know that some of our sales managers have come to me after we've let a sales rep go and the sales rep has challenged the termination, and the manager wants anything I have sent to the sales rep regarding IT policies, etc since I've been here (3 years now.) IANAL, but I do know that it's better to have a stated company policy on email retention than to have ad-hoc email retention on an individual basis. Thanks, John Aldrich IT Manager, Blueridge Carpet 706-276-2001, Ext. 2233 From: Jeff Brown [mailto:2jbr...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 10:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Email retention Our owner wanted 30 days to be standard retention policy for email. Lawyers said 90. We keep everything 90 days. On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Jonathan Link <jonathan.l...@gmail.com> wrote: There is no standard, it's determined by business requriements and regulatory requirements for your industry. SOX rules are for publicly traded companies, so you're asking contradictory questions. On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:04 AM, John Aldrich <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com> wrote: What's the standard for email retention for companies which are NOT publicly traded? What's the SOX rules on email retention? I just helped one of our managers open some Outlook data files dating back to 2007 which got me thinking about the wisdom of retaining information that long and I wasn't sure what the "norm" is for retaining that info. Thanks... Thanks, John Aldrich IT Manager, Blueridge Carpet 706-276-2001, Ext. 2233 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
