That was almost exactly my point as I raised in my first e-mail a few days
ago. Please check the archives. What I meant by privacy & protection vs
freedom and openness was the legal point of whether a list message belongs
to the list owner or to the person who wrote the message, and NOT whether
an archive should be modified. Please read my earlier postings.

My point was that once the archives went out the material may not
necessarily belong to the sender (see earlier message). I never made a
point on whether archives should be modified (other people did, I DID
NOT.)

JT

On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Ingrid H. Shafer wrote:

> JT,
>
> This isn't a matter of privacy and protection vs freedom and openness; it's
> a matter of not re-writing history!  For an archive to have any value it
> MUST be an exact record of any and all messages sent out, no matter how
> embarrassing.  Once a message has been sent it cannot be recalled.  This
> is not Orwell's "Ministry of Truth."
>
> Peace,  Ingrid
> Ingrid Shafer
> http://www.usao.edu/~facshaferi
>