{"id":6311,"date":"2005-05-21T11:52:05","date_gmt":"2005-05-21T11:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/21\/harbinger-the-i\/"},"modified":"2023-05-21T11:31:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T15:31:58","slug":"harbinger-the-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/21\/harbinger-the-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Harbinger: The Imminence of Failsafe Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span><p>A failure to retain email records is the basis of Wednesday&#8217;s $1.45 billion ruling against investing giant Morgan Stanley (<a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/05\/20\/217207&amp;from=rss\">via<\/a>).&nbsp;&nbsp; Apparently, the judge in the case regarded Morgan Stanley&#8217;s failure to produce records of email correspondence to be conspiratorial.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Banks and broker-dealers are obliged to retain e-mail and instant messaging documents for three years under U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rules. But similar requirements will apply to all public companies from July 2006 under the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate reform measures.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, U.S. courts are imposing increasingly harsh punishments on corporations that fail to comply with orders to produce e-mail documents, the experts said.<\/p>\n<p>Where judges once were more likely to accept that incompetence or computer problems might be to blame, they are now apt to rule that noncompliance is an indication a company has something to hide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how these policies generalize to academic institutions\u2014public or private.&nbsp; In various work situations (no need to name institutions), I was within earshot of a few cases of email mishandling\u2014events where this or that person deleted email messages with certain implications, instances where<br \/>\npeople claimed never to have received a message (even when the sender had receipt confirming delivery), and problems with systems deletions that kick out old messages because of limited capacities on local servers.&nbsp; I suppose we&#8217;re all familiar with cases like these, situations where the mysterious email<br \/>\ngnomes trick on our records systems.&nbsp; If nothing else, it does call to mind the efforts I&#8217;ve seen recently\u2014especially in my teaching&#8211;to hear &#8220;I never received it&#8221; or &#8220;I have no record of it,&#8221; as a justification for being uninformed.&nbsp; So it&#8217;s interesting to me that in a broader, systemic way, &#8220;incompetence or computer problems&#8221; are waning as viable excuses.&nbsp; Lest I be made accountable for reading too much into this, I&#8217;ll just say I find it interesting because\u2014in one example\u2014it suggests still-shifting sensibilities about the reliability of email.&nbsp; $1.45 billion: quite a pile of chips.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the Reuters story quotes the executive officer of a &#8220;provider of records retention software systems&#8221; who said he anticipates this case will be viewed by others as\u2014in the hyperbolic blend of the week\u2014&#8221;legal Chernobyl.&#8221;&nbsp; What the heck does that mean?&nbsp; Forced abandonment of email systems because of their disastrous high-level toxicity to corporations that can&#8217;t manage fluid texts? 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