Quote: People should be jailed/fined for either obstructing justice or failure to comply with retention regulations.
WHAT retention regulations are those?
Quote: Records-retention protocols released by the IRS indicate that before May of last year, employee inboxes were limited, external backup tapes kept only six months of data and were then recycled, and that, as a result, there was no centralized backup of email. Employees were individually responsible for preserving much of their own email correspondence.
http://reason.com/blog/2014/06/19/hard-d...fficial-lo
That last sentence is instructive, though. As a general rule, I kept email on my computer for 6 weeks unless it was something of particular importance to the union in which case I set up separate folders in the inbox to move them for safe keeping. I had some for years. But most of the shit they generated was valueless and had anyone attempted to retain it all in short order you would have been unable to find anything. 50-75 emails per day was not uncommon and they were generated by every management twit who thought the rank and file was just fucking dying to hear from them. To this day I still mass delete emails at the six week mark. Old habit. But if it is older than that the odds that I'll ever look at it again are slim to none.
