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Gooijen, Henk wrote: This is your choice. Unfortunately in today's world there are a lot of legal types that sue people for silly things. The day may come when someone will claim ownership "rights" on the emails you have posted using their $$ (ie: servers and bandwidth) and will sue someone like Jay for posting "their" emails on a public server. Whether they win or loose or even if they have the right to claim ownership is all immaterial. Your opinions on those will also be more or less irrelevant. The impact is that whoever is doing useful things like posting archives online will have to deal with the legal issues. From my experience, the most likely outcome of this is that the archives will be removed rather than fight the battle. This does the entire community (including yourself) a disservice, which I expect you would not like to see. The fact remains that this could well happen and the likelihood is greater because of your choice to use a service that adds these silly footers. While I agree that it's all silly. I object to your choice to propagate the silliness. If I was the list admin, I'd reject messages with silly disclaimers and make life easier for the future list archivists. I understand that this makes life more difficult for list members. It's just the choice I would make. Jay is free to make his own choice. Apologies to any who read this far and think this a waste of electrons. Perhaps it is. ;-) -- Tim Riker - http://Rikers.org/ - TimR at Debian.org Embedded Linux Technologist - http://eLinux.org/ BZFlag maintainer - http://BZFlag.org/ - for fun!