What Is Email Threading, and How Does It Help in eDiscovery?
eDiscovery or electronic discovery is the process of identifying, collecting, and producing electronically stored information (ESI) in response to a Freedom of Information Act request or a lawsuit. ESI includes emails, IM chats, MS Teams messages, files, presentations, voicemails, social media files and more. However, emails are still a significant component of ESI collections for eDiscovery. As evident, eDiscovery can make or break your case, and without it, you can even be looking at hefty fines. Therefore, eDiscovery teams resort to several approaches to ensure an error-free eDiscovery of evidence and documents in a timely fashion. One such approach is message threading in email archiving . What is an email thread? Consider an email exchange that has been ongoing for some time. In most situations, the last email in a thread will contain the contents of all previous emails. Reading the last email will provide a comprehensive picture of the thread’s discourse. T...