Hi all,

I thank everyone who replied to my question. I can assure you, all the opinions were duly noted, and will be used in the future consideration of the policy. I particularly thankful to those who shared their own practical experience with the issue, this was the most valuable.

Sergey


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Subject: Re: Email retention approach

>
> We at the District of Squamish (which is in BC, Canada) are working on
> a brand-new Email Retention Policy and considering a different
> approach from the "traditional records management", where each
> individual email is scheduled and retained according to our Retention
> schedule, as any other record. We are thinking instead of a "unified
> retention", where emails are separated from the rest of the records as
> a unique category, and assigned one common retention (with certain
> exceptions). We would be very interested to know, how other
> organizations (especially, municipalities) tackle this issue, and what factors they consider while making this decision.
>
> Thank you,
> Sergey


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