Comment by jtbigwoo

This is a pretty common strategy. Many companies have poor record retention and backup policies because it's in their best interest to "forget" the things they do. I know of large companies that limit email boxes to 50 MB partially because it forces deletion of old, possibly incriminating email. Government agencies are generally supposed to be better about this due to stuff like the Freedom of Information Act. I wonder if there's any teeth in the act for non-compliance like this?