> This sounds like a slippery slope: where do you stop? SMTP, MAILER, > LISTSERV logs? end-users' logs/archives? Those questions might better be > answered by competent counsel. > > Bill Gates need not apply. > > At 10:55 11/22/98 -0500, Roger Fajman said: > |We would like to have the ability for the list owner to specify > |automatic pruning of archives. There have been a number of cases > |of email being used against the sender in legal proceedings. For > |internal working group lists there may be a good reason to keep > |archives, but not to keep them too lang. It has been answered by a lot of lawyers. They say don't keep your email around for a long time. LISTSERV and SMTP logs don't contain the contents of the email. Most people prune those after a relatively short time anyway. I'm not concerned about end-user archives. That's up to the users.