< If you create a system that is "cumbersome and time consuming" where
the risk is low, the cost is high, and the operational need is minimal,
you may create a situation that could undermine efforts to achieve
results where the need is truly required. This applies regardless of
media or technology.>

Absolutely.  This is also true in the paper world, as I pointed out.
The traditional RIM approach is to determine "risk, cost, and
operational need" when designing the destruction/deletion process,
including how we group the individual records to avoid the cumbersome
and time consuming aspect of individual application.

Ginny Jones
(Virginia A. Jones, CRM, FAI)
Records Manager
Information Technology Division
Newport News Dept. of Public Utilities
Newport News, VA
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