Based on a some I have received off list it seems no-one has ever heard of such a proposal that has had any serious traction so I assume the gentleman was either mistaken, paranoid, or trying to pull a joke on me.
Thank you for the responses everyone. You can now get back to your regularly scheduled regulatory headaches. __________________________ Eric Esslinger Information Services Manager - Fayetteville Public Utilities http://www.fpu-tn.com/ (931)433-1522 ext 165 > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric J Esslinger [mailto:eesslin...@fpu-tn.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 9:57 AM > To: 'nanog@nanog.org' > Subject: question regarding US requirements for journaling > public email (possible legislation?) > > > Hope yall had an 'eventless' holiday. (I.e. no pages at 2 am > on a holiday morning). Sorry to drop what is possibly just > someone misunderstanding something or pulling my leg on the > list, but over the holidays I ran into one of my buddies that > is also a network admin type and he was griping about mail > journalling, which I already do for our corporate email > accounts. However, his discussion was in terms of all > customer email... Which I said was probably a bad thing to > do. His response was there is legislation being pushed in > both House and Senate that would require journalling for 2 or > 5 years, all mail passing through all of your mail servers. > > I've seen nothing, and my google fu has turned up nothing > other than corporate 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 be looking forward towards maybe > needing to implement. > > Thanks for your attention and may you have a low incident new > year. __________________________ Eric Esslinger Information > Services Manager - Fayetteville Public Utilities > http://www.fpu-tn.com/ (931)433-1522 ext 165 > > This message may contain confidential and/or proprietary > information and is intended for the person/entity to whom it > was originally addressed. Any use by others is strictly prohibited. > > This message may contain confidential and/or proprietary information and is intended for the person/entity to whom it was originally addressed. Any use by others is strictly prohibited.
