Hi All - I'm Renee O'Neal and this is my very first post.   I am 
requesting some input from your experiences regarding email 
retention / disposition.    Trying to persuade IT and Legal the benefits 
of not keeping years and years and YEARS of emails, but running into 
massive resistance.  IT has kept decades of backups and Legal keeps 
stating we have to follow the retention schedule as these are 
documents.    I keep trying to say the email is a transistory delivery 
system and not a document.  Unfortunately, we have been allowed to 
use folders in Outlook for storage and it sort of has become a 
repository.   I need help in - or correction on - my thinking and in my 
quest to reduce the amount of emails kept.    I have polled a few 
companies in my local ARMA chapter and have received positive 
feedback on practices ranging from 3-5 years of email is being kept at 
the employee box level, no long term archiving and a few exceptions 
that are allowed longer "keeps" (execs, legal, tax..).   Normal?   If so, 
how do I bridge the Legal arguement of keeping emails by the retention 
schedule (not even sure I could) - some of these could be 100+ 
years?     Thanks for your input and feedback - remember, newbie 
here......kindness is appreciated LOL

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