Businesses should improve email backup policies

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2 commentsThursday, February 14, 2008

White House Email Probe Wakeup Call To Businesses

Businesses should improve email backup policies

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By Jessica (WPN reader) - Wed, 02/20/2008 - 18:26

RE: White House Email Probe Wakeup Call To Businesses

How interesting. By default, I keep my mail as long as possible and back it up - I have email dating back to 2002. But I do this because I'm anal retentive, not because of any recordkeeping law. :)

By Peterk (WPN reader) - Sat, 02/16/2008 - 23:16

Email is not a record

"many businesses falsely believe that email is not a business record."

Did the subject line catch your attention? well its true email is not a record. Email is a method of transporting information. The content of the email determines if it is a record or not.

If email is a record and all emails are retained like many in the IT world want, then that would be like retaining all your physical mail and then throwing it out after a given period of time.

Businesses need to have a records management program that will by working with IT determine how long to keep records.

for more information about records management visit this website

http://www.arma.org which is the website for ARMA International the professional association for records managers