A medical student sent a email to the dean of financial affairs trying to
explain in painfull detail that his father's income should not be included
in evaluating his aid package since the father had refused all contact and
support for him or his mother. Unfortunatly the student had replied to the
list and it got sent to hundereds of his classmates.
I can't allow it to remain in the archives.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Greenberg
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: 5/29/2004 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: How to edit web posts

On: Sat, May 29, 2004 at 02:06:14PM -0300,Russ Hunt Wrote:

} This has been said before, but it might be worth saying again.
}
} >Any offer guidance on how to remove certain messages from a lists
} >web archive? I am using 1.8e
}
} It's a good idea to avoid this if you possibly can. Once you've broken
} a policy that archives are just records of what people posted and are
} not edited, it's easy to get sucked into editing everything. People
} are _often_ embarrassed by what they said in the heat of the moment,
} and once they know that (a) it's there for anybody to see and (b) you
} can change it, well . . .

I will second that.... In spades.