Now I am concerned. I was under the impression that a letter (no matter how distributed) always remains the intellectual property of the writer and may not be published beyond the original "space" (whether e-mail list or small group of recipients or individual) without the author's permission. A list message is not automatically in the "public domain" (though it may be impossible to keep out of mass distribution and difficult to pursue as a actionable case) and I certainly don't see myself as "owning" rights to my subscribers' messages. Ingrid Shafer