> But, I think Sam could delete a bunch of the old messages...

See link below.

> > 3) You don't often post, so Sam doesn't know you well enough to know whether or not you were trying to be antagonistic. As in, eric's original post sounded pretty antagonistic and insulting to ME, but eric's been around a while, so we give him the benefit of the doubt. Is it fair? No, probably not.... but that's the way it is.
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> I think that this approach has the unfortunate effect of turning the message forum into a clique...

It would, but actually I don't work that way, and I should have clarified that in my first post to this thread. The specific person posting does not impact whether I delete a message or not.

The following post about forum moderation should help: