(I have not read all the messages in this topic yet) I've never deleted all of a person's messages. Mark

I, too, would like to see the "All Messages by This Member" button in a lot more places than currently. It sometimes takes several steps to get to it instead of the 1 step you'd expect. --

in our all moderated group, we check each member’s pending post against his past posting history...is there anyway to move the “All Messages By This Member” button to the pending message view

Why not just do what I do, if you need to save copies of messages? In my group, I created a dummy account which main purpose is to receive all posts made to my group. I have it set up so that each

That SEEMS like an extreme case, that Mark would not likely do except in extreme circumstances. The individual member is not a paying subscriber, after all, and it probably takes some effort on

There's no stopping us now! lol You created a monster ;) -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human

Yes. Only mods can edit and then "save without sending." -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human

This has gone far too far and might even tempt me to delete my original message for this thread. Thank you all for your investment in this subject. -- Bob Bellizzi FuchsFriends@groups.io online

That depends on the group's settings. (Editing a message, that is.) Or are you saying that only Moderators can edit a message without also sending the edited message? Andy

Andy . . . I thought that a person who was removed from a group could contact Mark and be able to delete their old messages if they chose to do so? Or that there was some mechanism they could use for

Only moderators can do that anyway. Exactly right. Which gives the lie to the idea that letting them remove it is some sort of legal requirement. (Strictly speaking, I said you can't stop a *group

True, I realized belatedly that the safe harbor law is only in the US. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only

You would also need to disable Editing of messages. If someone Edits an existing message and doesn't send it out again, nobody would receive it with the edits, so their saved archive would not be

One thing to be conscious of, is the fact that groups have no national boundaries, the way laws do. It may be less obvious to many of you. Some groups here are very cosmopolitan, even if not

Not true. Members give groups.io indefinite rights to publish their content. I disagree with that, too. GROP allows them to request take-down of their personal data. Not content written by them. They

At least for now. Going off-topic: that law needs to be changed in certain cases. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. My humanity is bound up in yours, for

I understand Bob's concern. What he's looking for is a way to preserve evidence of slander or liable. Whether to protect the group or the author is irrelevant. Unfortunately taking away the right of a

wrote: If anything, the member who deleted the post may show he realized the post shouldn't have been made in the first place, and that would leave the group off the hook. That would point the finger

Why can't you just moderate this member with this option in their membership file? Override: moderate the first message of every topic this person starts -- Pat Pratt

I don't understand what "evidence" everybody is talking about. Evidence for what? How can saving the hapless message be evidence for anything? It's gone from your group. In fact, the poster helped you