[wlug_org] Editing mailing list archives

[Peter Dawson]

For my money I'd take either of the first two options, at Ewen's
discretion, as follows...

- remove the post in question, replacing it with a note to the effect
  that it's been removed at the request of the author and date

- edit the post in question to "blank out" whatever words are causing
  the problematic search results (and add a note of when/why it was
  edited)

I think that, as the post is causing embarrassment to the author who
didn't intend to post it in the first place, it is only fair to honour
his request to have it removed, as long as it is clear to anyone reading
the archive that an item has been removed for stated reasons.

I'm not sure that I'd trust search engines to observe the robots.txt
request to ignore significant chunks of that archive, and I suspect that
a significant part of the archive would drop off the radar if we went
that way... Maybe I'm too cynical to give an opinion on this option...

Cheers, Peter :-)
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