>On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Fred Karp wrote:
>
>>  If an inappropriate message appears, is it possible to remove it from the
>>  archives by simply editing the .lognnnn and .digest files?  The resulting
>>  archives seem to retain the message, but the body is empty.  I wouldn't want
>>  the various index files to go out of synch.
>
>What I do is edit out the unwanted message from the appropriate log file.
>I then delete the correspond .digest and .indx files, then get and put the
>list's header to rebuilt the html files and index files.

It's possible to edit archives without login access to the machine in
question.  See http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8d/qs/editlogs.html for
information on this.

Thanks,
--
Jacob Haller, Technical Support
L-Soft international, Inc
http://www.lsoft.com/