A session I went to at the recent ARMA conference pointed out that the
number of e-mail files alone in a typical 10K employee enterprise
exceeds the total amount of content tracked by Google. The "cheap
storage/Google/the next big thing" reasons to keep everything, as noted
in this article, need to be taken with a grain of salt, as, to date,
they have not proven particularly valid, despite the fact that they have
been promoted to varying degrees for the past 2+ decades (the current
"Google analogy" replacing the earlier "full text indexing" analogy).

Having said that, I could see a variation of an approach like this taken
in certain circumstances. One of the striking things I've noticed about
conversations around this issue is a lack of any sense of risk
assessment, scale, or relative importance of the electronic records
being maintained (ie, no understanding of retention "values"). Why would
one apply this kind of vacuum cleaner approach to everyone's emails
across an enterprise? Landfills come to mind... 

Dwight Wallis, CRM
Records Administrator
Multnomah County Fleet, Records, Electronics, Distribution and Stores
(FREDS)
1620 S.E. 190th Avenue
Portland, OR 97233
Phone: (503)988-3741
Fax: (503)988-3754
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