The State of Hawaii has an official policy regarding email messages: delete them after 60 days.
It’s hard to believe, especially when the Honolulu Star-Bulletin discovered that “State Archivist Susan Shaner claims there is simply too much e-mail to save it all.”
I doubt that. Corporations are saving terabytes of email, text messages and instant messages every year.
The state’s policy seems rooted in convenience. Herman Frazier’s email messages about the Sugar Bowl and June Jones have already been deleted — he was fired as the University of Hawaii’s athletic director in January 2008.
See the newspaper’s editorial, Treat state e-mail the same as other public documents, for more.
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