This makes a lot of sense to me. > I would take no pleasure in running a list that required > that much intervention. To me, an e-mail list is closer to a spoken > conversation than to a published work of writing . . . > I happen to be an editor by profession, so I spend my work days > shaping other people's writing. But I would never consider editing the > posts to one of my lists. There's another issue. Once you intervene once, you're responsible for all of it: anything said on the list is deemed to have been passed by you. A few years ago, someone posted something by hitting reply carelessly that she thought might cost her her job. After quite a lot of back and forth, I finally went in and silently edited it out of the archive. I worried about that precedent for a long time, and I've not done it since. -- Russ Russell Hunt Department of English St. Thomas University http://www.stu.ca/~hunt/