In a message dated 12/8/2006 8:36:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, iansinger@sympatico.ca writes: <<Yesterday I posted a message, which never arrived, asking if Ancestory Board Admins were really supposed to be going in and deleting messages as I never knew that and only I started as an Admin a couple of weeks ago. I seriously doubt that that is the way it is supposed to be as by allowing that Ancestory then is excerting editorial control, and legally becomes responsible as a publisher under US law for the content expressed in all messages.>> --- Ian- You need to click on COMMUNITY GUIDELINES on every board and read the agreement each user makes in using the boards. The GUIDELINES give RootsWeb/Ancestry the right to remove posts from boards that don't meet the guidelines. That isn't editorializing. It is exactly the same as setting privatizing of GEDCOMs on WorldConnect for individuals born after 1930...it is part of the agreement to terms when using the service. <<Are you now saying if a message is posted you were/are also expected to move it from one message board to another message board?? Is that not like saying if an author writes a book, and designates how it will be displayed (cover/jacket), you can change it at whim? In both cases the answer should be no as you do not hold copyright.>> --- No--it isn't. It is, once again, adhering to COMMUNITY GUIDELINES. If you couldn't move a message posted on the JONES board that asked about John SMITH and wife Susan ROBINSON--you'd have a pretty messed up board system. Misplaced posts need to be moved by the board admin. Copyright has nothing to do with displaying a post in its proper place within the board system. Copyright of original content is protected in that admins cannot edit the message body of a post. Joan