Niall Sez Microsoft is Too Big and Paralyzed
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| If I understand the law correctly, as it has worked in the courtroom, if
| you have a bunch of incriminating e-mails, and you destroy them because
| they're incriminating, the court and/or jury is entitled to assume the
| worst about the e-mails - that they incriminate you. I mean, why else did
| you destroy them?
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| But if you have a company policy that "we destroy all emails after 3
| months", and the incriminating emails get destroyed, then the court
| can't assume anything, because that's just how you do things.
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| Note well: I am not a lawyer, I am not your lawyer, and this is not
| legal advice.
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| By the way, don't blame the emails for biting you in court. Blame
| Microsoft's actions for biting you in court. The emails were just the
| proof. You want to have less trouble in court? Change the corporate
| behavior, not the email retention policy.
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http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2006/08/niall-sez-microsoft-is-too-big-and.html
Can't afford any more damaging conspiracies leak out to the world, eh?
http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/
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