On Thursday 13 May 2004 22:09, Julian Bradley wrote:
> >and as rules on retention of mail bite
>
> Adrian / Anyone who knows
>
> Would you like to elucidate?
Business and particularly finance sector regulations (which have the force,
essentially, of law) are certainly tending toward a requirement to keep all
emails _inside_ the company as well as with customers for periods of eg 6
years.
I know disk space is trivially cheap, but I also notice that not everyone is
using efficient mail clients, and not everyone is posting individual emails
for threading, ratehr than shipping the whole of the correspondence back and
forth in each email.
It mounts up.
Add in a load of Word docs copied to everyone and it rapidly becomes a very
considerable volume of data. (However, repetitious multiple emails will
compress very very well if they are all stored in the same compressed file,
IE same machine, because the tokens will be large and repeated many times.)
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Adrian Midgley (Linux desktop)
GP, Exeter
http://www.defoam.net/
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