True, but only applicable to email you send. Unless you've configured your system to produce delivery and read receipts, it's nearly impossible to prove you read an email. And if you don't have a copy of it, it'll often be impossible to prove it was even ever delivered to your mail server. (Think retention policies for mail server log files, to protect yourself on both ends of this stick.) It's often a safe bet to assume the other techie had adopted a policy of laziness. -Adam
Sean Walberg sean@ertw.com wrote:
I can appreciate Adam's arguments about email and lawsuits, but there's nothing stopping the recipient of the email from being required to disclose the email even if you've (virtually) shredded your copy.
Like many techie solutions, it requires that everyone adopt the same policy :)
Sean
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:25 AM, John Lange john@johnlange.ca wrote:
This is a classic techie "argument" where everyone agrees on everything except the solution ;)
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The fact that you replied and quoted my email tells me you've read the email.
Sean
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Adam Thompson athompso@athompso.netwrote:
True, but only applicable to email you send. Unless you've configured your system to produce delivery and read receipts, it's nearly impossible to prove you read an email. And if you don't have a copy of it, it'll often be impossible to prove it was even ever delivered to your mail server. (Think retention policies for mail server log files, to protect yourself on both ends of this stick.) It's often a safe bet to assume the other techie had adopted a policy of laziness. -Adam
Sean Walberg sean@ertw.com wrote:
I can appreciate Adam's arguments about email and lawsuits, but there's nothing stopping the recipient of the email from being required to
disclose
the email even if you've (virtually) shredded your copy.
Like many techie solutions, it requires that everyone adopt the same
policy
:)
Sean
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:25 AM, John Lange john@johnlange.ca wrote:
This is a classic techie "argument" where everyone agrees on everything except the solution ;)
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