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Home Secretary Urges Email Data Retention
View Poll Results: Should ntl be deleting your emails rather than 'only' imposing a mailbox size limit?
Yes go ahead and delete my email after a set period. 17 70.83%
No I'd like my saved emails to remain saved thank you. 7 29.17%
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Old 11-07-2005, 19:49   #31
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Re: Home Secretary Urges Email Data Retention
Yes, the whole 'terrorist tracking' thing is a bit ridiculous.

On the legal side, I can't find any reference after a quick search so you're probably right there as well.

Unhappy customers do cite email and other secondary services as areas that could do with improvement.

As to the amount of storage I'll assume we're talking <20TB which would fit on 40 hard drives (yes I guess ntl wont be using 500GB SATA drives) which is a tiny drop in the ocean compared to the millions coming in each month.

I was delighted with the recent increase in speeds but don't see anything wrong in wishing that ntl wouldn't delete ... yada yada yada.
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This is funny. If ntl are bringing in £30mill ion a month in subscriptions then a £30,000 mail server upgrade would be 1/1000th of 1 months income.

I stand by my first post - "Cheap ********"
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Old 11-07-2005, 21:06   #33
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Re: Home Secretary Urges Email Data Retention
I think obvious might be onto a good thing. If more terrorists can be encouraged to use NTL for their email, there would be a lot less bombings. "Do you believe the infidels should die? Save 10% on broadband." I missed my calling - should have gone into marketing.
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Re: Home Secretary Urges Email Data Retention
Maybe the terrorists should have NTL email accounts and new access. That way, we could guarantee they would never be able to communicate
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Re: Home Secretary Urges Email Data Retention
I'm just thinking of the spam influx on the system, bear in mind that what the home sec is suggesting is hidden retention, emails that we delete would be retained also for future reference or the concept is rendered invalid.... sheesh, the storage requirement would be phenomenal and would grow at an almost exponential rate.
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Re: Home Secretary Urges Email Data Retention
BTW, has anyone else got more than 30days retention on the ntl mailservers at the moment?
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Re: Home Secretary Urges Email Data Retention
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BTW, has anyone else got more than 30days retention on the ntl mailservers at the moment?
Not sure, mine are deleted from the servers as I download them.
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Not sure, mine are deleted from the servers as I download them.
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Sorry, couldn't resist
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Re: Home Secretary Urges Email Data Retention
The oldest email in my account is from the 5th of April.
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