__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Thursday 17 August 2006 11:40 \__
> begin oe_protect.scr
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> E-Discovery Snafu May Have Erased Enron E-Mail
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>>| As Ben Hallman reports in The American Lawyer, the company handling
>>| electronic discovery in the Enron civil suits says a software glitch may
>>| have erased text in e-mails produced in the case over an 18-month span.
>>|
>>| [...]
>>|
>>| The glitch stems from Microsoft Outlook 2003, the report says. When it
>>| is used to open e-mails from earlier Outlook versions, some appear to
>>| be blank when they are not. Nagel calls the problem "a Microsoft issue,"
>>| not e-discovery specific.
>> `----
>>
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http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2006/08/ediscovery_snaf.html
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> It's all collapsing about their ears at the moment. Only a year or so
> ago, viruses affected /computers/ not /windows/, glitches were a
> /computer/ problem, but now they're a /microsoft/ problem. There is a
> great waking up going on.
Thanks for pointing that out. *smile* I hadn't even thought about/noticed it.
This seems to be a growing trend rather than the exception. The BBC, for
example, is beginning to make a mentioning of the platform affected. I find
that American news agencies are still behind in that respect... when a virus
hits, the news is assumed to be relevant to all. No classifications. No
effort to distinguish. Imagine the BBC saying that the 'sueprmarkets' are
stocking cancerous foods when only one retailer is to blame.
Best wishes,
Roy
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