At 01:52 12/17/1998 -0600, Phyllis L. Flott said: |I'm wondering about this question becasue many people are using e-mail |archives for research these days. I use a list for the classes I teach |and I'm wondering if there is any evidence left after the log and the |web archive are altered. If a researcher suspected that there had been |deletions in both the log and the web archive, would there be anything |left to tip them off that there had been alterations? In my opinion, this is the tail wagging the dog ... I don't think L-Soft DESIGNED the archives so that they were of auditor-quality control. This kind of stuff needs to be designed up-front. I'm not sure that I would want my say, NSF-funded publishable research, to be based upon the conjectured inviolate archives -- there are just too many cooks in the kitchen. /Pete Weiss