Re: [SAGE] Mailbox retention settings

[Neil Watson <sage@watson-wilson.ca>]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 03:27:42PM -0600, Brad Knowles wrote:
>There's a lot of background here that we don't have.  For example, 
>are you impacted by SarbOx regulations?  Are you a financial services 
>industry which is required to keep a copy of all communications 
>(including e-mail and IMs) to and from customers for seven years? 
>Are there other regulations that might be applicable (e.g., the UK 
>RIP laws)?

This law grates on me.  It seems to me that corporations pay little more
than lip service to the SOX data retention rules.  I see them squirrel
away tapes and other electronic media.  However, I've not witnessed any
of them plan how they will access this data 7 years later when the
hardware or software required to read the data is no longer available or
the media has deteriorated because no one transferred the date to new
media for preservation.  

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