[wlug_org] Editing mailing list archives

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I agree with these sentiments also.

Go ahead with either option 1 or 2 Ewen.


On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 21:56 +1200, Mark Foster wrote:
> 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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