There are also legal implications to editing or deleting messages. 

Eric Johnson
Listowner, Toller-L

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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