This may be good advice -- > You should probably check with your organization's legal counsel. I > am not an attorney, but it seems to me that from a practical > standpoint, the old saying "if you do not want what you write to be > shared with the entire world without your permission, then do not send > it as email" probably applies. But there's a substantial difference between an email to an individual and a public posting to an archived discussion list. I might try to do something about someone quoting a private email, but I wouldn't even think about it if the quoted text were out there on a public list. -- Russ Russell Hunt Department of English St. Thomas University http://www.stu.ca/~hunt/