Tyler,
Great link!  Thanks for the humor.
 
I am going to just make a comment and not a treatise.
 
My personal feeling is that "Buckets" are the easy way out of a situation  
that does require time, effort, research, thought and compiliance.  This  
simplicity is, in my mind, the first step in a backdoor approach to organizing  
data, information, documents, and such.  Without knowledge,however,of  records 
retention requirements and the associated research you can not just  place things 
in 3+, 7+, 10+ buckets.  You do eventually have to organize  what is in the 
bucket. (You all forgot the 5+ year bucket.)
 
Over the past years in preparing functional retention schedules, I have  
always had the support of all involved and in explaining the reasoning in "8th  
grade" level language the people involved at all levels of the enterprise "got  
it".  To my mind functional retention schedules make absolute sense to a  lot 
of other people.
 
Buckets as just big receptecals for holding information.  Yes, today,  with 
all of the outstanding technology for searching this metthod might seem  simple 
and logical. But when the power goes out and the documents are spread  across 
the street, a Bucket is to no avail. But a well organized and planned  
functional system  works everytime.
 
Trudy M.  Phillips
File Management, LLC 
"Bringing Order  Out of Chaos"
8440 Lanewood Circle 
Leeds, AL 35094
Office:  205/699-8571   Fax: 205/699-3278 








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