Stop users with contributor rights from deleting documents

Question

We have a wss 3.0 site that has a document library based on a custom list definition.

We would like to block users that have contributor rights from deleting documents, what is the best way of doing this?

Answer 1

You will have to create a custom Permission Level and exclude Delete Permission from it. Here an article I wrote about that scenario: Document libraries: Specify which items users can edit/delete – explained – Part 1