I agree.  I realize that coming from a university setting I may have a
different perspective on this but what good is an archive if you can't
trust it to contain the record of what has happened on the list?

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Pete Weiss wrote:

> List-management is highly subjective; many folks believe you should never
> alter the archives.  Archive editing is a slippery slope, especially as a
> personal time-sink.  To a certain degree, it is even a exercise in
> futility especially if there are third-party (and unregulated, even
> personal) archives.
>
> I would be hard pressed to remember if I've ever done such a thing in the
> more than a decade of operating lists (that's not to say that I've never,
> I just can't recall).
>
> /Pete

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