Chris writes: "Funny story... during a recent meeting with Legal we were discussing a few revisions to one of our retention documents, and one of our attorneys quipped, "What's the retention on a retention document?" He thought he was hilarious. =)" I've had this reaction before. But then I explain of the times at my old company when we had a subpoena duces Tecum asking for medical records for someone that worked for the company back in the 1940's. Thank heavens we had the oldest schedules and I could provide Counsel with copies of our old schedules, our old policy, and a letter explaining why these records no longer existed. We also had all our destruction documentation, so if I had that I would produce it as well. Rock on! Sharon Burnett Seattle WA PS I am not attending the Police concerts. I saw them in 1978 at the Showbox Theater in Seattle. They were loud. The were late. We were in heaven. Andy Sumner was amazing. Still is I think. List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance