[Gllug] BBC on Microsoft DRM in new Outlook

[John Hearns]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Jason Clifford wrote:

> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3205080.stm
> 
> "Destroying the e-mails completely would create legal trouble, because in 
> the United States deleting e-mails is a federal offence, regarded in a 
> similar light to shredding documents. 
> 
So note to sysadmins (and I know you all do this already):

Make sure you have an effective backup scheme in place.

Keep the tapes in a fireproof safe and/or remove a copy to an offsite 
location.

Regularly check you can read a random old backup tape.


Yes, I know this stuff is time consuming when there are fires to fight.
But its part of the job. 

And a good book is:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/unixbr/index.html


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