At 09:50 AM 8/3/01 -0700, jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
Lots of people, among them various companies I worked for, have
been doing equivalent things with shredders, selective backup, and so on and so forth, routinely destroying records, in part because excessive record keeping could become a disaster in any court case.
Everyone is doing it, no one has been charged.
After MS was busted, it was widely publicized that it was thereafter official policy to destroy email after N days. As if Ollie et al. wasn't enough.
EXACTLY. *SIGH* Neither Uni nor I suggested that routine document destruction is inappropriate in the ordinary course of business. Again, the flipside of these cases is that court's recognized the legitimate aims (and self-protective nature) of destruction when done as part of a consistent, good faith practice. Read Lewy. ~Aimee