From: tom <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, 15 June 2013, 12:53
Subject: Re: [LUG] OT French camp site internet
Again you can keep a copy of all sent messages locally using thunderbird.
Again, unless they GPG sign
it as received it really isnt worth jack
1 I also keep copy in sent on T'bird locally.
2. Most clients do not use any digital signatures. GPG of otherwise. Not even MS Windows own promoted
commercial versions .
( Only signatures I routinely get are from the 'hidden folk' in HMG export control who sign
HM Government export licenses for dubious dual use goods (for explosives, equipment which it is possible to
convert to mass destruction weapons manufacture and such like etc))
3. Advantage of the 'document file' is I can swear that as a contemporaneous record, I made, I recorded, then I sent
and I have acknowledgement of 'opening'. The problem is who opened, hence always use both a corporate address
line then the named addressee inside the text.
While the T'Bird sent files are machine sent, and while you can swear sent log them as evidence, it is better with
the single
document as well. Courts like 'documents'.
Mind you it depends on the country/culture you are arguing with and in which forum of law or arbitration.
4 Alternative is old fashioned FAX ( always easy proof in court, as machine receiver is provable.) suitable for
Ukraine and Koreas and Japan who like faxes.
