yep , and I have no choice but to surrender IP information to police officials
and what exactly are they going to do with that IP information, the ISP's dont legally have to give the police the customers details linked to that ip address and they usually dont ... YET
also do you not routinely purge the ip adress info as there is no reason to keep it except to waste space, so if they come, nothing to show, i certainly dont have ip logs for my locally hosted web sites
sorry your wrong.... I work for an ISP .... if the police ask for customer details we have to surrender .... if they have just cause ... or a warrent for the information.
as for keeping IP's there is no option to purge IP's on here , they are logged with the post for all time
damn, that must be a fairly new rule in the uk as i always thought it was just isps voluntarily giving customer details to the police hence all the problem getting people downloading with torrents, pedos etc.
Here in holland it is not allowed for the police to ask details from the isp's and has stood up in several court cases as it is completely circumstantial evidence as somebody could be logged onto your wifi, spoofing your ip addres etc
also anythign that is logged can be purged, i am not sure how it is logged on this forum if its in a database a simple update statement should work and if its in files ala a unix/linux sustem then removal via a mask is possible
(i'm not for a second critisizing you for not doing this as i am aware its normal not to on small to medium sites, but i have done this sort of thing for big clients such as vodafone and nintendo regularly)