On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Chad Walstrom wrote: | Although copyright law does allow the author to control the | publication of his/her own work, at what point do the demands of the | author exceed what is considered appropriate and polite behavior. By | sending email to the list, you have implicitly agreed that your posts | are not only allowed to be published in the forum, but to be archived | as well. Those are the stipulations of belonging to an archived email | list. And the comments are part of a discussion. Is it fair to the other participants in the discussion to remove part of the discussion? No. It's possible that the comments in question are quoted in replies to the message, and thus, you'd have to edit the replies, or remove the entire thread from the archive. And if you do it once, I'm sure you'll have to do it again. And again...do you really want to open that can of worms? Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://www.ringworld.org Linux is not an Operating System. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list