Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Sun Weblog Publisher broken

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On 30/05/2011 13:58, Roland Hughes wrote:

> Professional IT workers never remove any portion of the post because
> when you go through a SOX audit, and then through court, you get in a
> whole lot of trouble for doing it.

For a SOX audit the important thing is that the emails are available as
they were _ORIGINALLY_ sent. It does not matter one iota if the emails
are top posted, bottom posted, intermixed, or none of the message being
responded to is quoted.

If your firm takes to editing emails after they were sent, then they
ought to fail SOX Audit.

Courts are more concerned about the sequence that messages were sent,
and their contents, than whether top posting, bottom posting, intermixed
quoting, or nothing was used.

When courts have looked at the quoting practices of an individual, it
usually is triggered by a change in quoting practices. A change that may
have been the result of tampering with emails after they were sent.

> working on multi-million dollar projects for Fortunate 500 companies.

a) Microsoft is a Fortune 500 company;

b) For at least three decades, the professional IT consensus has been to
quote _only_ the appropriate text. That is the text that one is directly
responding to.

> There is a long drawn out history of people deleting what they didn't
read then denying things were said.

That sounds you are talking about deleting content _after_ the email was
sent, not before it was sent.

There are no legal barriers to deleting content prior to sending the
message.  There are a number of legal objections to deleting content
after sending the messages. Objections that can, in some instances,
result in gaol time.

> Full quoting is a policy mandated by most major corporations

Gomma gama. Gomma gama.

> because it allows management (and the legal team) to jump into the conversation at any point.

If an email suggests doing something that is a clear violation of the
law of the land, then legal might jump in, without looking at any other
messages in the thread. Even then, legal should limit itself to saying:
"Proposal x goes against company policy". Even under those
circumstances,legal should review the entire thread before posting
anything. In all other cases, legal should review the entire thread,
before engaging the message thread.

jonathon

I am not a lawyer.  This is not legal advice.
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