response 76 of 357:

Jan 11 22:24 UTC 2004

I posted in these items, I would like my posts restored.  I believe I posted
in good faith that the only one who would ever remove or alter my words, would
be me. I think granting JEP an exception would only show that staff is more
concerned with his rights than with the rights of every other user.  It won't
kill JEP to have to go back and scribble his own posts in those items.  It
is what he should have done in the first place instead of asking Valerie to
delete the items entirely.

I would ask that if staff does not restore these items, that they make the
original text of the item available by email to all those who participated
in the items, so that they may make a decision on their own as to whether to
re-post their words, only their words, in another item or another conference.
I believe that had proper notice been given that these items were to be
deleted, we'd have had the opportunity to copy our posts in those items and
save them, or re-post them in a different context.