Re: RE: RE: RE: RE: Need advice

From: jon@dakota-truck.net
Date: Thu Oct 10 2002 - 12:33:50 EDT


"Rick Barnes" <barnesrv@attbi.com> wrote:

: Emails would never constitute a contract in any court. That they are
: the point of negotiations means nothing. Emails are NOT an oral
: contract and even if it were, the seller violated the non-agreement by
: misrepresentation. Courts will not accept emails as proof because of
: the ability to manipulate them.
: My sister is a Circuit Court judge, this came from her. Nice try, but
: totally false.
: Rascal

   In the event that such a case was going to trial, could the
person's computer be siezed in order to inspect the outgoing mailbox?
If the e-mails were in there, about the only defense left to the
person is that someone else who had access to their computer wrote
them. (Granted, not all e-mail clients save a copy of the outgoing
mail, and the ones that do can be deleted to try to hide the evidence...)

-- 

-Jon-

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