Yeah - although the archives should be an accurate representation of what went on on this list. If you let people monkey with it then it looses its integrity.
I'm afraid I agree with this. As said before.. "an archive is after all.. an archive". Removing history is bad business. Prospective employers have a right to know if one of thier canidates has had a checkered past and removing the articles also removes the rights of employers to know about what he's been up to in the past. Could it be that *gasp* he shouldn't have done what he did in the first place.. then he wouldn't be having these problems?
On the other hand if you don't do it then he could always get some monopoly to fund a defamation action against the people in question.
I don't know if any of the entries could be described as fully defamatory as they do relate to real events and real things he did. Chris Rigby Senior Systems Engineer IHUG - Into the Internet --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog