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Hard News: Dancing the DMCA

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  • Tom Semmens,

    "...Funny you should say this (but it's probably on her auto sig), but more that 15 years ago I migrated the data for a GM of one of the Parliamentary agencies from one computer to another. He had gigabytes of data because he'd saved everything since the day he started. And all of his emails requested read & delivery receipts.

    Thousands & thousands of auto reply messages, and read receipts.

    OTOH, I also migrated the data from all of Bolger's ministers' proprietary computers to PC Servers. A huge undertaking for some, one or two took days (this was a while ago) to transfer..."



    I am curious, in an age where email is the new diary entry, does all this stuff on email servers get backed up and reverentially stored against the day in 2050 when some historian will be able to discover Jane and Murray were having an email tiff on Thursday 17th April 2008?

    Sevilla, Espana • Since Nov 2006 • 2217 posts Report Reply

  • 81stcolumn,

    Of course I cannot be held accountable for any missing laptops.......

    Nawthshaw • Since Nov 2006 • 790 posts Report Reply

  • Jeremy Andrew,

    does all this stuff on email servers get backed up and reverentially stored

    Yup, where I work it is, everything in & out & between is duplified in transit and stored on DVD in glorious banalicolour for future archaeologists to cure insomnia with.

    Hamiltron - City of the F… • Since Nov 2006 • 900 posts Report Reply

  • Che Tibby,

    Of course I cannot be held accountable for any missing laptops...

    neither. i'm sure those pcs are just in a basement somewhere. 5000 employees, at least one computer per? a few are bound to end up under lock and key somewhere.

    i was more driving at the categorisation of files. human behaviour being what it is, sometimes finding anything is a freaking nightmare.

    for example, at one point i found that all nzl universities have completely different coding...

    the back of an envelope • Since Nov 2006 • 2042 posts Report Reply

  • Ben Austin,

    I often had reason to trawl through the shared drives at my last employer, and one thing I constantly saw was a huge amount of dead or abandoned folders full of all sorts of interesting things. that possibly shouldn't have been abandoned.

    After this I think perhaps it is a very good idea to employ people as records management.

    London • Since Nov 2006 • 1027 posts Report Reply

  • hamishm,

    There's a part of Google that allows you to open your computer up to the whole freakin' universe. I put the work computer on it then checked it from home and got the shock of a lifetime! Took it off asap. It is very scary. Why anyone would do that is a mystery to me.
    I think the squirrel part of human nature, in terms of hoarding nuts, is a reasonable response.

    Since Nov 2006 • 357 posts Report Reply

  • Robyn Gallagher,

    I often had reason to trawl through the shared drives at my last employer, and one thing I constantly saw was a huge amount of dead or abandoned folders full of all sorts of interesting things.

    When I worked for [NZ's largest ISP], I found a directory on their website that contained a long forgotten webpage with a poll on which staff member had the funkiest hairdo.

    No one knew anything about it, yet it was out there on the interwebs for anyone to stumble across.

    Since Nov 2006 • 1946 posts Report Reply

  • Ben Austin,

    I can believe that. CMS with date expiry options per page are a godsend for the lazy

    London • Since Nov 2006 • 1027 posts Report Reply

  • Andrew Smith,

    "Steyn is a bigot afforded a veneer of respectability by the fact that he is sometimes used by respectable newspapers (although his relationship with the Daily Telegraph only lasted as long as the presence of his sugar-daddy Conrad Black), and that nasty little effort was all too typical of his "style". I honestly think he is a loathsome and mendacious commentator.

    But are you suggesting I should only read people I agree with?"

    Wow, you really don't like this guy! I take it back about the writing ability in this blog. Your description of Steyn was great..even though I disagree 100%. Keep reading Steyn I say!

    Since Jan 2007 • 150 posts Report Reply

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