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[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

The only problem with forwarding it is that you change or at least add to the metadata of the message - thus they all appear to have come from the person who forwarded them and lack controls to prevent tampering with the original message. This of course presumes this means you want to retain such messages as records demonstrating compliance, or documenting a decission process.

The need in this case is to preserve them for evidence in a trial. I don't think that even having them in the phone would be admissible due to possible tampering. However I do think that the saved version would be enough for a judge to allow a subpoena to the carrier.

Of course if you have a way to perserve all the tasty metadata I'd be down with that.