Where Have All The White House Emails Gone?
A package arrived today with a copy of a new book, Where Have All The Emails Gone?: How something as seemingly benign as White House email can have freaky national security consequences
I was ready to jump in, when I noticed a little pink tag coming from one of the pages. I opened it up and there it was ... "Appendix B: An Interview with Roger Matus on Email Archiving and Retrieval." Wow, what a rush. I made an appendix. I was also quoted in other places. Thanks, David.
Of course, I showed my co-workers here in the InBoxer office. I quickly remembered giving the interview several months ago and granting permission to use it in the book. But, it is fun to be taken by surprise.
David is a good writer. He explains a lot of technical details about archiving and the White House in ways that make it sound like a thriller. You do not need to be technical to follow it.
I love the title of the chapter "An Archiving Plan Only FEMA Can Love." Here are the other titles:
Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Prepare to be freaked out
Chapter 2: A historical perspective
Chapter 3: Can email messages just disappear?
Chapter 4: Follow the domains
Chapter 5: Who runs [...]?
Chapter 6: A detour into mob journalism
Chapter 7: The nightmare scenario
Chapter 8: An archiving plan only FEMA could love
Chapter 9: Migrating from Notes to Outlook
Chapter 10: Why did Karl Rove keep losing his BlackBerry?
Chapter 11: Understanding the root causes
Chapter 12: My formal recommendations
Chapter 13: The final questions
Appendix A: Letters from "Deep Mail"
Appendix B: An interview with Roger Matus on email archiving and retrieval
Appendix C: What your company can learn from the White House email problem
Appendix D: An interview with Marie Patterson on email storage and retrieval
Index
If you get a chance, find a copy.
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