On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:47:56 -0800, Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --On Monday, February 21, 2005 1:04 PM -0600 Flatfender > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Nothing to stop > > the vendor from deleting an email on their webserver proving they knew > > of something just go get out of a large claim, and if we didn't print > > the email we would have no proof. > > How do you prove that the recipient's email is not a forgery? Are you using > digital signatures that are printed along with the rest of the email? Can > the result even be keyed back in and checked? >
I guess technically you don't prove it';s not a forgery, It's not much different than forging a fax at that point. Mostly if you can show correspondence, then the vendors back down. But we have had insurance companies try to get out of paying claims, and once we provided the emails they paid them. It's kind of like, well we know we should pay this claim, but were going to try not to and if you can document why we should pay the claim then we will. None of these instances have had to stand up in court yet, so we haven't ever got to the level of is the email authentic or not. But the point was, it sucks not having a copy for yourself and having to rely on someone else who's best interest may be different from yours. I wasn't trying to say just having a copy covers us completely, I was trying to make the point that it's better we have a copy electronically ourselves than no copy at all or having to print a copy. It's kind of like archiving all corporate email. It's a double edged sword and it's not a perfect situation in all crircumstances. Matt _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
