>>If you mostly use email to announce "today's staff meeting is
cancelled" or to say, "here is the form you requested," you are much
less likely to need to save messages for any length of time.<<

Not sure I would group the two examples above together.  If the staff
meeting is a regularly scheduled occurrence, with associated notices,
handouts, and agendas.  Ten years from now, all of these other items
will be returned in a search, except meeting minutes or a cancellation
notice.  Saving something as simple as a cancellation notice might save
a ton of embarrassment or worse.

Bill R 

Bill Roach, CRM
Enterprise EDMS Coordinator
State of North Dakota
ITD/Records Management
701-328-3589

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