Yes, the C-PALSY archives are public and can be found on the St. Johns web server by any interested party. So if you have information or an opinion you do not wish to be made public, you should think twice before posting it on C-PALSY. It's not outside the realm of possibility for the archives to be accessed by legal parties and used in a court case.
As I've told countless others at work and elsewhere, nothing is totally private on the internet, and that is especially true for email and discussion groups.
Kat
> PS. With respect to your concerns that the information contained in your
> post be kept confidential, you do realize that the C-Palsy archives are
> open
> to anyone who accesses the St. Johns list serve web site don't you? (At
> least that's how I remember it being left the last time the issue came
> up.)