Removing items from the archives aside, I wholeheartedly agree that the more
things that can be ported to a web interface from "mail only" the better.

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For me, from time to time archive editing is absolutely necessary, and an
easier web-based method of doing it would be beneficial. I can see the
concern that an overzealous listowner would be erasing email history, but
policies and practices aside, we are talking about improving a method of
something that is possible to begin with, so I'm all for forward progress.
At least on a sysadmin level if not the list owner level. Plus the more
'by email only' things L-Soft can take and port to the web, it gives them
that much more of a competitive product.

Just my 2 cents.

-Jim

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On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Stan Horwitz wrote:

> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:32:23 -0400
> From: Stan Horwitz <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: LISTSERV site administrators' forum
>     <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: How to remove single message from archives?
>
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Pete Weiss wrote:
>
> >At 18:33 04/28/2004 Wednesday, Brett Lettice wrote:
> > >I agree, the current format of archives makes the removal of a single
> > >message a rather cumbersome process, something that I have to go
through all
> > >to regularly. As a future enhancement request could archive management
tools
> > >be added to the listserv platform - something available at a list owner
> > >level in the web interface?
> >
> >List-management is highly subjective; many folks believe you should never
> >alter the archives.  Archive editing is a slippery slope, especially as a
> >personal time-sink.  To a certain degree, it is even a exercise in
> >futility especially if there are third-party (and unregulated, even
> >personal) archives.
> >
> >I would be hard pressed to remember if I've ever done such a thing in the
> >more than a decade of operating lists (that's not to say that I've never,
> >I just can't recall).
>
> I couldn't agree more. Something is wrong if Listserv archives need to be
> modified manually on a regular basis. My experience is similar to Pete's.
> In the twelve years or so that I have been administering Listserv
> installations, there can't be more than three or four times in that entire
> period when I have been called upon to remove an unwanted postings and of
> those, I think only one was for human generated content, the others were
> viruses that managed to get into the archives.
>
> Ocassional requests of this nature come to me from the help desk here
> (maybe one request every other year). My response is typically to refer
> the list owner to the faq file.
>
>
>




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