Originally Posted By Mr X Actually, the operative phrase would be "oh, sorry. I stand corrected". Unless you are calling me a liar. As I said, again, it was the title of the link from the CNN homepage, not the headline. They are often different.
Originally Posted By mrichmondj While I'm skeptical that the administration is being entirely forthright on the issue of deleted e-mails, I might also give them the benefit of the doubt by assuming that they are using the same crummy information technology infrastructure that the rest of the federal government suffers under. Our government has some of the worst managed computer networks on the planet. I use one everyday, and for the billions of dollars in taxpayer money that were dumped into it, the capabilities are minimal. For example, the government network I use was purposely built with inadequate network storage for e-mail and other documents. I am essentially required to delete my inbox everyday so that I can continue to use the network. If I don't delete my inbox, all e-mail services are disabled for me. I managed to "solve" the problem by buying my own portable hard drive to save all of my data on. However, very few people I work with operate this way and most just delete everything they have on a regular basis so that they don't go over mailbox size limits. It wouldn't surprise me if the White House network was just as poorly designed and limited in its capacity to store information, or if there was no standard procedure for archiving e-mail on a regular basis.
