[wlug_org] Editing mailing list archives

[Mark Foster]

I agree pretty much entirely with Peter on this, either option works (pref 
the second one, minimal impact).

The List admins have the right to do what they like with the archives - 
however for the sake of integrity we should be able to trust the admins to 
leave the archives alone where there isnt a damn good reason to screw with 
them.  I'm not quite at the 'sorry, cant be done' as an answer to any 
request stage, but the reasons have to be bloody good. If your gut call on 
this one is to lean toward helping the requestee-out, i'd support it.

On the whole the guys running WellyLUG have established to my satisfaction 
their honesty and integrity, so i feel its important to also be seen to be 
reasonable to the public at large.  Obvoiusly if the requests suddely get 
regular and persistent, the rules need to change...

... I guess in the end id support a 'no editing the archives' policy so 
long as we retain the right to implement exceptions to the rule for the 
sake of commonsense.   We dont advertise the option, but we exercise it in 
exceptional cases. Fair?



On Mon, 5 May 2008, Peter Dawson wrote:

> 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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