From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: LJ matters
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:39:34 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

----- Original Message -----
From: <ronkean at juno.com>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 2:09 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: LJ matters

[...]
>
> I am a co-moderator on a libertarian email list, and recently the
> moderators of that list decided to delete the message archive, numbering
> over 10,000 messages, going back years, because increasing numbers of
> list members were becoming concerned that old messages could be dredged
> up, taken out of context, and used to embarrass list members, or be used
> as fodder for 'he said, she said' recriminations.  So now, we routinely
> delete messages in the archive which are more than about one month old.

How can you be sure one of your list members isn't privately archiving the
messages?  (You can't, of course.)

--Ted White