Email helps (contacting multiple parties at once) and hinders (messages
that get buried) us. It was 10 years ago that the Smithsonian Institution
Archives and the Rockefeller Archive Center launched its Collaborative
Electronic Records Project (CERP)  that evolved into an email preservation
project. At that the time, the largest email account we worked with was 1.5
GB or 28,000 messages. Today, our collections include individual email
accounts that are nearly 30 GB or more than 250,000 messages and
attachments. These email collections come from accounts that are no longer
active at the Smithsonian, dating from the late 1990s through 2015.

Even if email is obsolete in five years, memory institutions will continue
to receive email accounts from previous years that need to be accessible to
researchers.

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-- 
Peterk
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They have occurred under the guidance of federal agencies, and under the
umbrella of federal regulations."
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