[148185] in North American Network Operators' Group
question regarding US requirements for journaling public email
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric J Esslinger)
Thu Jan 5 10:57:41 2012
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From: Eric J Esslinger <eesslinger@fpu-tn.com>
To: "'nanog@nanog.org'" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 09:56:46 -0600
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Hope yall had an 'eventless' holiday. (I.e. no pages at 2 am on a holiday m=
orning).
Sorry to drop what is possibly just someone misunderstanding something or p=
ulling my leg on the list, but over the holidays I ran into one of my buddi=
es that is also a network admin type and he was griping about mail journall=
ing, which I already do for our corporate email accounts. However, his disc=
ussion was in terms of all customer email... Which I said was probably a ba=
d thing to do. His response was there is legislation being pushed in both H=
ouse and Senate that would require journalling for 2 or 5 years, all mail p=
assing through all of your mail servers.
I've seen nothing, and my google fu has turned up nothing other than corpor=
ate requirements, so I ask here. Has anyone heard of such a bill working it=
's way through either side of congress?
(I am speaking specifically of full email journaling, not just logs, which =
I do archive for significant amounts of time.)
I also don't want to discuss the pros, cons, merits, costs, goods, or evils=
of such a requirement, just wanted to know if this is something I should b=
e looking forward towards maybe needing to implement.
Thanks for your attention and may you have a low incident new year.
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Eric Esslinger
Information Services Manager - Fayetteville Public Utilities
http://www.fpu-tn.com/
(931)433-1522 ext 165
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