Surely, the arrogance, on the part of a mere private citizen, to impugn the veracity of the IRS is unforgivable; so I ask your forgiveness and indulgence in advance!
All sad (and I mean very sad) kidding aside, here is the singular and paramount FACT that seems to have eluded everyone (or has been simply ignored), and at which I continue to ponder in amazement. I enjoyed a rewarding career in Information Technology that spanned more than 30 years. During that tenure, I was intimately involved at almost every administrative and technical level with the installation and support of corporate email systems. PLEASE NOTE THIS, everyone: EMAIL RESIDES PERMANENTLY ON CORPORATE SERVERS AND SERVER FARMS - NOT ON INDIVIDUAL DESKTOP PCs! Desktop PCs, Laptops, etc. are used only to compose and submit email, not to permanently house email! Additionally, in every corporate or government IT environment I have ever observed, the servers noted are backed up locally and off-site with adequate levels of archival to prevent any loss of data in the event of a true hardware or software disaster. Depending on the nature of the corporation or agency, and the regulatory agencies involved (state & federal), there are legal requirements to maintain these backups and archives for several years (usually in a state where recovery capabilities can be easily demonstrated and effected, for audit purposes, whenever necessary). I've seen hundreds of individual desktop PCs crash during my tenure in corporate IT, and I can state, without equivocation, that not a single email (other than one in a state of composition at the moment of failure) was ever lost as a result of those crashes. It is time for someone to bring this critically relevant fact to the attention of the babbling, inept herd of jackasses currently running the IRS and this government. People of America, for God's sake, wake up, before it is too late!
Submitted with all due respect and no apologies to anyone.
Dick Keaton
Dear ProseWriter,
ReplyDeleteAll of your blog posts are incredibly articulate and it is obvious each of your offerings is the result of considerable thought and concern. I applaud your efforts and always remember, no apology is due! Thank you!