full-disclosure - irc legaility

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From: andfarm at teknovis.com (Andrew Farmer)
Subject: irc legaility

On 19 Nov 2004, at 17:22, Simon Lorentsen wrote:
> In the following scenario; you are a business, is IRC logs of 
> conversations and lists of hosts be help up in a court of law if a 
> client you spoke to refused to pay or hold up the end of a bargain or 
> agreement, and is faxing a document (no hard copies sent via post) 
> accepted as a legal document in a court of law.

I'm no lawyer, but I'd seriously doubt it, especially as plain-text 
logs can easily be falsified.
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