As owner/moderator, how can I prevent members from deleting their own messages in the archive?

Question

I would like to allow members to see their messages via the archive but some of them have deleted their own message from the database. I would like to preserve that archive especially the earlier messages but I think there is no way for me to download that database. Has anybody been able to do that?

Answer 1

you can save copies of posts in your own e-mail- there are some programs that'll back-up/ copy a whole group like group fetch- but that is not an on-going saving process.

keep in mind members have a right to delete their own posts, that's why Yahoo allows that option for members. the only way to prevent it is to close the archives.