130 Lotus Instant Messaging/Web Conferencing (Sametime): Building Sametime-Enabled Applications
remaining major accounting firms and auditors are recommending that all
electronic communications be auditable.
While less ominous than a barrage of government regulations, the move towards
corporate responsibility has a tendency to trickle down the organization and has
caused many IT organizations to implement new archiving rules, including
maintaining IM transcripts. In the public sector, open meeting and so-called
“sunshine” laws that require open records of local and state governments (in the
United States) are also being extended to IM and e-mail messages, in effect
making them public record. Of course, in order to be a public record, there ...