Re: DISCUSSION: archiving of NOMCOM information

[Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 07:10:15AM -0800, Matt Holdrege wrote:
> But Ted, we all have our own email storage. All you have to do is encourage 
> nomcom members to keep nomcom email on their laptops til the year is over. 
> That way each member has control and can delete it whenever they want if 
> they are worried about lawsuits. In fact, this is what happens already. I 
> know I still have all the nomcom emails from this year and I know certain 
> other nomcom members have the same.

Actually, it's supposed to be the exact reverse, from what I've been
told --- my understanding is that nomcom members are encouraged to
delete all of their nomcom-related e-mail and files for their own
protection, and that encrypted records would be sent off to the
secretariat for that purpose.

Of course, no one can't *force* you to delete your nomcom-related
e-mails, but I would consider it a wise thing to do.

> So we absolutely do not need to send off an archive to the secretariat or 
> any other external host.

Well, we do, if we don't want to depend on nomcom members deciding to
risk retaining their nomcom-related records.

						- Ted