Provided this is coupled with business-germane email and attachments  being harvested off into appropriate ECM/EDRMS/EDMS or, in old money, printed out and filed in the relevant folder (shudders at the thought), then 90 day deletion is great way to get people to move stuff out of the host system (Outlook or whatever).  Elsewise, time pressures, lack of cultural/business imperative or simple difficulty of moving stuff out will lead to people using the host system as in effect a filestore- perhaps, in some instances, the most searchable that they may have!

 

Meic

 

 

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FOIMan wonders if 90 day retention of email by the Cabinet Office is a conspiracy, or if it could be a (clumsy) attempt at governance.

The FT has a piece this morning stating that the Cabinet Office routinely deletes email after 90 days. It argues that this is evidence of the Cabinet Office deliberately avoiding FOI. Cue outraged voices from all quarters.

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