JT, This isn't a matter of privacy and protection vs freedom and openness; it's a matter of not re-writing history! For an archive to have any value it MUST be an exact record of any and all messages sent out, no matter how embarrassing. Once a message has been sent it cannot be recalled. This is not Orwell's "Ministry of Truth." Peace, Ingrid Ingrid Shafer http://www.usao.edu/~facshaferi