Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Re: Archiving email and limiting attachment size

This is one reason why we don't offer student or faculty email. If
someone want to subpoena someone let them subpoena Google, not us.

Greg
On Sep 26, 2007, at 6:18 PM, Backon, Joel wrote:

> The NAIS attorney told us, at a workshop, not to archive email at all
> except during discovery as outlined by Peter Hoopes. Anything you have
> in your archives (as opposed to a backup, which is a snapshot in
> time),
> is subject to subpoena once a legal proceeding is initiated. You can
> well imagine the types of messages circulating or saved on your email
> server that might sometime have to be turned over to the courts.
>
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> [mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Peter Hoopes
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 7:34 PM
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> Subject: Re: Archiving email and limiting attachment size
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> A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
> writes:
>> Second item - length of time to keep the archived emails: 7 years. Is
> this
>> too long?
>
> This is actually a MIS-interpretation of the law. At least our counsel
> and
> several other strong firms in the area have told us, you do NOT have
> to
> keep 7 years worth of email activity. You simply need to have in
> place a
> method by which you CAN keep email during a discovery process should
> get
> involved in one.
>
> If you have consulted your school counsel and they believe 7 years is
> necessary, then so be it. But, if you haven't, don't get caught up in
> all
> of the panic about keeping that much email.
>
> Peter Hoopes
> Director of Technology
> St. Andrew's School
> phoopes@standrews-de.org
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