Kim

May I humbly suggest looking at the National Archives of Australia's
Archives Advice "Email archiving solutions are not recordkeeping
solutions" at
http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/rkpubs/advices/advice69.html. In the
interests of full disclosure, I wrote the guideline

It lists some of the things you will need to consider if you implement
an email "archiving" system.

John Lovejoy
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kaminski, Kim [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Friday, 16 February 2007 7:16 AM
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Subject: [RM] E-mail Archiving

Our company is in the process of selecting an e-mail archiving system
and we are currently discussing the whole retention of e-mails area.
What are the best practices with respect to classifying the e-mail
messages for retention purposes?  There are some within the organization
(IT) that are suggesting that messages should be categorized by job
function vs. document type.  It seems to me this will not serve the
organization well.  What say you?  I have looked in the listserv
archives and have not found what I was looking for.
 
Thank you in advance for your help.
Kim Kaminski
ATK

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