In a message dated 12/1/00 11:02:17 AM Pacific Standard Time,
falconsword@... writes:

<< I was thinking maybe it would help make the archives more readable if
I were to delete some of the minor messages in them. You know, where
people are just saying a few words of thanks or discussing fairly
irrelevant things; messages that were appropriate in context but may
not hold much value in retrospect.

If you think that's too 1984 then let me know:) >>

To me, it is too much like Big Brother. AOL does sometimes screen out
certain messages (this may be their SPAM control), so I like to go back to
the egroups site and reread a missing message. Instead, I might find three
messages missing. Can we at least leave them up for a while? Thanks,
Birgit