[pydave]

Unfortunately, those goals are rarely communicated and accepted by the people they're imposed on.

My first full-time job had an unexplained email expiry policy. After being frustrated several times at losing some explanation on how/why, I started forwarding all my emails to gmail. In retrospect, that's probably a worse result to whoever imposed the expiration.

Fortunately, these days people are better about consolidating knowledge on wikis or some kind of shared docs instead of only email.

[o-__-o]

It’s a hush hush kind of thing. You advertise it’s to avoid discovery and you are openly admiting to liability should someone find out while trying to pull your execs email during discovery.

The excuse of resource contention provides plausible deniability

[disgruntledphd2]

Yeah, this is really common. Normally there'll be one unrecorded/easily deleted means of communication, and people use that for discussing things that potentially could expose the company to legal liability.

But nobody ever talks about it (except on said un-recorded meetings. That reminds me, I should explain this to our junior today, so that he knows for the future).

[anitil]

I just spent 20 minutes trying to find an article by Bryne Hobart vaguely in this area [0], but for personal messaging. The idea being if you control the storage (or deletion) you can avoid casual or speculative regulatory interest in your chat logs.

(apologies it's on medium, I couldn't find it anywhere else)

[0] https://byrnehobart.medium.com/the-stealth-regulatory-arbitr...