Seconded.

I've been the guy detailed to watch over the shoulders of the "experts" 
from both sides as they went through one of our systems looking for 
evidence, and that was for a dispute that we were not even party to. :-(

Personally, I would not even consider such a request without -at a 
minimum- having been so instructed *in writing* by someone at the VP 
level or above in the organization; and even then, I'd probably take the 
request and run it by the General Council's Office and get their 
blessing first.

-Chris

Eric Johnson wrote:
> There are also legal implications to editing or deleting messages. 
> 
> Eric Johnson
> Listowner, Toller-L
> 
> ---- Original Message ----
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> Subject: Re: deletion of messages
> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:40:55 -0300
> 
>> This issue has come up a number of times on the list, and every 
>> time someone says something like this:
>>
>>> 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 . . . 
>> Try searching the archives under "edit web posts." This view is 
>> not universally accepted, but the discussion's out there to be 
>> seen.
>>
>> -- Russ

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Christopher Wilson
Information Systems Coordinator
ISS Enterprise Systems
The George Washington University
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