Once upon a time, there was a Really Bad Attitude mailing list. It was supposed to be a private place to say bad things without consequences. Thanks to MS Lawyers, it is no more (don’t worry, the subponea game works both ways).

In hindsight, complying with the company’s Document Retention Policy (which at Netscape was basically, « shred anything within 90 days unless you can’t get your job done without it ») might have been a good idea. But in any event, I sure am glad that I keep my work mail and personal mail in separate folders. I’m going to increase that separation soon, and keep them on separate machines entirely. And I encourage you to do the same.

Amen. I really should do the same.

The problem is that I love to have a digital memory. Contrary to human memory, I find it actually takes more effort not to keep a trace of something I did on a computer. Double edged sword apparently.

[via Fizzz]