Re: Email Policy Changes

[Craig Freyman <craigfreyman () gmail com>]

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 <hevnsnt () i-hacked com>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 <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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