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[Lynn Fredricks]

> Personally I also dislike the specific benefits made by Lynn 
> of a forum of posts being editable or controllable. these 
> lists are very self limiting and the few storms that come up 
> go away quickly. a good free and open discourse is the heart 
> and sole of what makes this such a wonderful list for all and 
> probably one of the major supports of the product for the 
> company (and i would hesitate to say w/o it, it may not have 
> made it this far). a big brother approach to this kind of 
> discourse (ie channeling, censoring, or editing) ruins it 
> with even the threat of it.

Storms never go away because lists are retransmitted and syndicated, often
without permission from the list owner.

A lot of list software also doesn't allow easy editing of archives. So, for
example, if some person transmitted a bunch of illegal serial numbers or
made untrue, libelous or fraudulent statements on a mailing list its
extremely hard to clean up later.

Best regards,


Lynn Fredricks
Worldwide Business Operations
Runtime Revolution, Ltd