Does your own company email compete (response pt 1)
Tags :Rant
I generated some good discussion feedback
on this
topic two days ago. I am
going to address them one at a time since there is so much great information
in the discussions for the post. So I will start with the mystical
and vanishing Jon Raslawski's (of IBM Lotus) comments
Ok, my responses. I think if you
can measure time that one spends it is not intangible since all those studies
show "we saved this much $$$ by people not spending 100 hours doing
spam at 1 message per minute" kind of crap. But I fully agree
in advertising as the driving force for free services. How many ads
make it successful and keep it free I don't know. Funny that I found
you can subscribe to a required newsletter and then block it in spam filters
with their own product, thereby never seeing it.
But, investing in a spam product is huge
in cost savings as compared to the time spent sorting through spam in large
enterprises. Disk space, of course, has value in not only the hardware,
cabling and power but then backups too.
Just because you have a low quota
doesn't mean that the employees still do not have sensitive data that is
being stored that can get you into lawsuits right? It just means
they manage attachments correctly and save all the really damaging mail?
Yes the likeliness is reduced with small quotas, but by how much
might not be measurable. I never have bought into the theory of not
keeping mail for fear of lawsuits. It is more like we have people
making bad business decisions in the organization and we wish to hide and
protect them.
My theory on mail storage will follow in
this strings of posts. I do have an opinion on that.
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On Wednesday, July 14th, 2004 by Chris Miller
