Thanks to Russ and other providers of pointers. Eric wrote:

>There are also legal implications to editing or deleting messages.

I appreciate his noting this. In our case, there is no corporate entity to
own the content. But I'm curious: If someone mistakenly posted to a list
personal info--their own or someone else's in a situation where neither
the "victim" nor anyone else had a clear legal interest in the disclosure's
remaining included in list content--then would the employer, if any, be
justified in refusing to excise the info from the archives, even if asked
to do so by the sender about their own details? Or does he mean that an
employer (or a third party to which the employer was answerable on some
level) would always have at least an arguable interest in the retention?


Chuck Brandstater
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