> Under international copyright laws what you say is true of ANY list > so stop being stupid. > > Bob <[email protected]> Bob- Mailing lists on Yahoo and various other servers where you are the "creator" of the list and "own" the list DO grant you the rights as a listowner that I previously stated. I've been there and been the victim of a list "owner" under their system. If you create a Yahoo list and you ever wish to kill the list and destroy the data and have all the archives removed -- you can do it -- whether the people who entrusted their data to your list and archiving approved of it or not. And once the archived messages are gone, if the list "owner" has copied the data for his own use--he can reuse it and in most cases you could never prove it was your original data. Been there and had that happen. This is one of the major differences between having a "listowner" and personally created list such as the Yahoogroup lists and having a genealogy list that you "admin" at RootsWeb. At least it is a difference from the standpoint of the people who post to such a list--they can be assured that the administrator is merely that--a list caretaker -- and not someone who has the sole right to remove and kill the data they've entrust to the list and the archiving system. Joan [email protected]