Russ Hunt wrote: > I'd just like to add here that I've never done it, on the > (perhaps paranoid) assumption that it's a slippery slope. How > much editing of what was _really_ said can be refused, once > you've edited once (can you be just a little bit pregnant)? I > see myself spending my life manipulating the past so that people > are spared having accessible the evidence of what they actually > said. I tell those desperate folks that really you _can't_ take > it back, any more than you can take back what you said in a > conversation (and that the wayback machine's probably got it > stored, anyway). The only times I have deleted messages have been when a spam message, containing a dangerous link, slipped through the LISTSERV spam filters (that does happen occasionally). I didn't want to leave a booby-trap waiting for some unwary list member browsing the archives. I would not consider editing the archives to alter the record of what people have said or not said. John --- John E. Burchard Ph.D. TICK-L co-owner [log in to unmask]