I've never removed the logs which form the archives - don't want to as we have over six years of them and plan to keep them - but I have done minimal editing when glitches have happened (weirdo stuff which causes some mail systems to shut down). I did this while we were on VM, haven't tried it since we've been on UNIX. get listname LOGxxxxx Edit whatever you like with an appropriate editor. You can change the content, delete entire postings, whatever. put listname LOGxxxxx I do not delete embarassing items regardless of desperate pleading; I have some highly embarassing stuff of my own in there and I ain't going to delete that so I sure ain't going to go to the work of deleting soneone elses faux pas. If this person wants everything he ever sent to the list deleted from the list archives what about replies to his postings which quote what he said? Does he want those removed also? My attitude is: you sent it to the list of your own free will, knowing we retain archives which subscribers can access whenever they please. Archives are archives, one does not tamper with them except to correct a technical problem in a posting which may cause problems for some. You could call it an ethical issue: if you edit the archives on demand are they really archives? On the practical level, if you do it for one person what justification will you have for refusing to do it for another? I will not remove my own ill advised postings, which are generally about as blushfull as can be imagined, so I have no qualms about refusing to do it for anyone else. The archives are the archives, not "The Congressional Record." Douglas Douglas Winship Hays County, Texas [log in to unmask] Secondary AUTOCAT Listowner MEDLAB-L