On Thu, 17 Dec 1998 01:52:23 -0600 Phyllis L. Flott said:
>I'm wondering about this question becasue many people are using e-mail
>archives for research these days.  I use a list for the classes I teach
>and I'm wondering if there is any evidence left after the log and the
>web archive are altered.  If a researcher suspected that there had been
>deletions in both the log and the web archive, would there be anything
>left to tip them off that there had been alterations?

It depends on how the archives were edited, ie, whether or not a backup
file was kept, etc.  That's outside LISTSERV's ability to control unless
it's done with GET and PUT, and then the only trace is the log entries
for the GET and PUT operations.

Nathan