RE: CRIME Deletion of saved emails that are one month old

From: Kuo, Jimmy (Jimmy_Kuo@private)
Date: Tue Jun 24 2003 - 15:08:42 PDT

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    With laws going into place about retention, many places are adopting the
    policy of deleting anything they can as soon as they can.  Then, they won't
    be liable to all the subpoenas and such.
    
    I'm sure your company's IT is adopting a policy for a much shorter time span
    for the life of emails, or are discussing it.
    
    Jimmy
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Dorning, Kevin E - DI-3 [mailto:kedorning@private]
    Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 11:07 AM
    To: 'yazidbenkhellat@private'; crime@private
    Subject: RE: CRIME Deletion of saved emails that are one month old
    
    
    It's not unusual for an e-mail site to have a maximum retention policy.  You
    should check your ISP's use policies.  They probably tell you they will
    delete anything that is over 30 days old.  Otherwise their servers fill up
    and cease to be able to server their customers.
    
    Kevin E. Dorning
    Chief Information Security Officer
    Office of the CIO  DI-3
    Bonneville Power Administration - USDOE
    503-230-3082
    
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: yazidbenkhellat@private [mailto:yazidbenkhellat@private]
    Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 4:08 PM
    To: crime@private
    Subject: CRIME Deletion of saved emails that are one month old
    
    
    I know the following might not be an infosec issue per se
    but think of a hacker breaking into someone's email server
    and deleting all his/her emails from the server.
    
    I have an email service with a DSL provider.
    I discovered yesterday that their server is deleting all my emails
    that are one month old even the ones that are moved from inbox
    and saved to specific folders.
    My questions are:
    1. Is this common practice with other service providers?
    2. Is there a liability issue with the provider 
    by deleting saved emails without prior warning/notification?
    3. Do I have legal right to ask the provider to bring back 
    the deleted emails?
    (I guess they have them somewhere in their backups).
    
    Thanks
    
    Yazid B.
    
     
    
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