On Apr 22, 1:05am, Winship wrote: > > 1). Should listowners delete messages from list archives at subscriber > > requests? > Absolutely not. The archives are the archives, edited only to resolve > technical glitches. Oh? I can think of at least three good reasons to remove a posting from an archive: 1. The message is defames someone. 2. The message includes something illegal (copyright violation or kiddy-porn or...) 3. The message includes a lot of garbage; be it MIME encoded graphics (or, worse, Microsoft Word...) that slipped in under your line limit (you *do* limit the length of postings to your list, right?) Now, you might argue that the last is a 'technical glitch', but it really isn't, it is just a pain to have in the archive. It boils down to how customer oriented a list owner you want to be. And we all have the right to say "Sorry, I don't have the time." David