Peter,
 
Re: >From the November 30, 2004 issue of Ignites.com:
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Industry: Clearer E-Mail Retention Regs Needed
>   By Alison Sahoo
>Laura Dubois, director of product
>management at electronic storage specialist Permabit, says that both
>regulations and litigation are driving demand for enhanced e-mail
>storage solutions.

>"Customers want to start with e-mail, then expand into other types of
>record retention like MS Word, Excel, PDF and content management like
>check imaging," she says. "E-mail is an easy place to start because it's
>relatively contained and there is good precedent from the SEC on how
>e-mails should be retained."
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I can't answer as to your grumpiness, but I don't think in this case it would be applicable. Grumpiness, or non-grumpiness, the issue is (and always has been) ------ "retention is about information content, not container content".
 
Not all vendors are created equal; and I'm fairly sure that many vendors are pleased about that. Vendor, or non-vendor, if you're in this industry and don't understand the very fundamental difference between information content and container content, don't be shocked if you're asked to appear before a judge.
 
In today's Kansas City Star (that's Kansas City, Missouri) an article appears telling the story of five Jackson County employees who have been subpoenaed for improper records destruction. Seems that the records operation couldn't produce some documents for the county prosecutor during a special audit process. Whoops! Seems that the documents were destroyed and the prosecutor has some questions as to the "timeliness" of the destruction relevant to the audit. Whoops!
 
Retention and Final Disposition are great topics of interest. The process of legally, ethically and safely assigning retention periods that will ultimately lead to final disposition continues to be one of the (if not THE) most difficult tasks in all of records and information management.
 
E-mail has now added another "layer" to this ever-increasingly difficult task. Not possessing the clear understanding between information content and container content can be disastrous.
 
Peter, I don't think you're grumpy. I think you, maybe like many of us, get a bit tired of people who appear to work so hard at being non-smart!
 
With regards and all due respect! 
 
 
Bill
 
Bill Millican
eSentio Technologies
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