Re: Email Policy Changes

[Bill Swearingen <hevnsnt () i-hacked com>]

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 <craigfreyman () gmail com>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
>
>
>
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