Bill, If I am responsible for implementing the controls to stop users from getting around the policy, why would I not try to figure out what they're going to do? Should I just pretend everyone is honest and follows the rules?
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Bill Swearingen <[email protected]>wrote: > I dont understand why you wouldnt want to comply with policy? > > The reason the lawyers have made this decision is because of ediscovery. > If their is a policy (and technical restraints) to not keep stuff past 60 > days, then they cant be requested to discover email and documents older than > that. > > Sounds like you are looking for a good way of being fired! > > $0.02 > > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Craig Freyman <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Our lawyers are demanding a drastic change in the way we handle email at >> our company. This will be a huge change for our working culture here and I >> am anticipating major backlash from the users, but "It is what it is." I >> was hoping the pauldotcom list would think of ways around their policy. I'll >> have to develop controls to try and stop people from doing so. >> >> Here is what they want to do: >> Only keep 60 days of email, everything will be deleted on a rolling basis. >> You can choose to save specific emails to your home drive and that space >> will be capped. >> >> Putting my nefarious user hat on, these are the ways around the policy as >> I see it: >> >> - Upload email to a dropbox type account. >> - Saving to USB drives >> - Accessing webmail from a non-company computer and saving it there >> - CD Burning >> - Forwarding to external email accounts IE gmail, hotmail >> - Saving to other places on the network >> >> Anyone have any other ideas? >> >> Thanks, >> Craig >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pauldotcom mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >
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