OT: Keeping e-mail 'forever'

[Steve Wiltsie]

I've heard that about 2 weeks ago the Supreme Court made a decision that
basically said businesses needed to keep their e-mail 'forever'.  I've since
confirmed that information with a lawyer but no one seems to know what
'forever' means and if the decision includes all e-mails including spam.
Does anyone know any more than that about it?  If it is true, what mechanism
is supposed to be correct for archiving and storing the e-mail?  When is it
supposed to go into effect?

I have clients mainly using Outlook and Outlook Express.  None of them has
an exchange server now although one is going to be joining their parent
company's domain soon and the e-mail will then all be handled by their main
exchange server at HQ.  Has anyone heard if Microsoft is going to build
anything into their products to handle this new requirement?

Looking forward to hearing any constructive comments on this.

Thanks,
Steve Wiltsie
microCONCEPTS Div. multi/user/inc.        Since 1981
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