Why the recommendation against having an organization email address? There seem to be some strong downsides to board members using personal email addresses for board matters: member’s entire personal inboxes are vulnerable to search if any litigation against org happens; when members depart, it’s difficult to ensure org-related emails are archived for record-keeping, particularly relating to org decisions; similarly, it’s difficult to ensure org-related emails are deleted, to lessen the risk of leaks in the event of an email hack (since the email address won’t be deactivated like a org-email would).
Why the recommendation against having an organization email address? There seem to be some strong downsides to board members using personal email addresses for board matters: member’s entire personal inboxes are vulnerable to search if any litigation against org happens; when members depart, it’s difficult to ensure org-related emails are archived for record-keeping, particularly relating to org decisions; similarly, it’s difficult to ensure org-related emails are deleted, to lessen the risk of leaks in the event of an email hack (since the email address won’t be deactivated like a org-email would).
You raise some good points, so I have removed that point from the main article.