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[ILUG] Completely loo-lah law requiring retention of e-mail headers for 3 years

[ILUG] Completely loo-lah law requiring retention of e-mail headers for 3 years

John Moylan john at nuatech.net
Sat Jan 19 19:08:56 GMT 2008


Plus, it's only headers, I'm sure that they compress real well. Storage
is cheap etc. etc.

J


On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 13:00 +0000, Proinnsias Breathnach wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 12:17:28PM +0000, Steve McConville wrote:
> > 
> > A law requiring it is, therefore, either stupid or simply not intended
> > to target criminals.
> > 
> Actually - that's almost  _exactly_ the point !
> 
> It's not terrorists or anything they're talking about here (in real
> terms) odds are, the problem they're trying to solve is that of banks,
> government agencies, and certain large software companies deleting
> emails and claiming they never existed. If the ISPs must retain the
> heaaders, there's a trail proving destruction of evidence in what is
> possibly a criminal matter ..
> 
> P




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