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I am still wondering how Foley's IM's were collected...

Ditto.. Foley should be put in a deep hole, but I believe we may have a Watergate type situation with some dems, in which case, they should be in the same hole if they 'set' this situation up... Most IM programs (especially if he were using AOL as assumed by his e-mail address) don't automatically keep conversations.

59 posted on 10/03/2006 2:14:51 PM PDT by mnehring (http://abaraxas.blogspot.com/)

Yeah, wouldn't one of the parties have had to log the chat? I know back in the day on Prodigy you could log them.
susie

68 posted on 10/03/2006 2:16:12 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)

We're assuming that the pages didn't keep the IM's for their own protection in the event Foley went ape-sh*t for rejecting his advances. How they got into the hands of Brian Ross is a whole other ballgame. But if someone with a lot of power was making unwanted advances on you and you could document it/archive it, believe me, you would.

85 posted on 10/03/2006 2:17:54 PM PDT by Rutles4Ever ("My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." (2 Cor. 12:9))

"Most IM programs (especially if he were using AOL as assumed by his e-mail address) don't automatically keep conversations."

They don't. However, if you're using a general IM client like Trillian, which handles, AOL, Yahoo, MSN, etc., all history is logged.

128 posted on 10/03/2006 2:22:08 PM PDT by Buck W. (If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)

I agree ... I'm still trying to figure out how it is done. I don't know anyone that saves them. Maybe all Representatives IM's are saved and we should (to limit damage) look at all of them.

I think ABC will break Hillary's affair with ... Eleanor Roosevelt's ghost

[End of sarcasm]

130 posted on 10/03/2006 2:22:17 PM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))

I believe Yahoo IM does. All it needs is for one side to keep them. I log things because I chat with coworkers at times and like having the ability to see what was said.

381 posted on 10/03/2006 2:57:31 PM PDT by technochick99 ( Firearm of choice: Sig Sauer....)