> People who want chat logs can simply generate them on the client side. That wouldn't fulfil 90% of the purpose of keeping logs, for me at least. Not everyone

> People who want chat logs can simply generate them on the client side. That wouldn't fulfil 90% of the purpose of keeping logs, for me at least. Not everyone has the same requirements as you - I for one very rarely bother with OTR, but I have to search my chat logs for something on an almost daily basis. I use XMPP on my work PC, on my laptop and desktop at home, and on my phone. Splitting the logs across all those devices would make them literally useless.