This unintentionally hilarious vendor pitch just landed in my inbox: “E-mail Archiving May Have Been Solution for White House.”
“The nation learned an important lesson in e-mail archiving last week as the White House raced to locate millions of e-mails for legal discovery. For U.S. businesses, up to 70 percent of data resides in e-mail. Thus, every computer may hold critical evidence during an internal investigation or litigation and it has become imperative to hang onto it.”
Yes, indeed … imperative … hang on to it … blah, blah, blah.
However, the equation changes somewhat when the purpose of the exercise is to ensure that critical evidence is unavailable — as in nowhere to be found ever again come hell or high subpoena.
When that’s the case it doesn’t much matter if you store your old e-mail in the most advanced and failsafe system modern technology can provide … or a bleepin’ shoe box.
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