Hi Rob,

I thought that privacy-related scrubs of mailing list archives had been halted, given (1) the many problems that they have caused in the past and (2) that once info is sent to a public list it is likely to be archived publicly in places outside of WMF control and therefore the usefulness of these wipes is doubtful.

James, you and I have discussed this issue previously. Can you please comment?

Thanks,

Pine

On Jun 20, 2016 09:38, "Rob Halsell" <rhalsell@wikimedia.org> wrote:
I already got a few messages pointing out that taking down the wikimania mailing list the week of folks traveling there may not be ideal for communication!

I'm working with legal to see if I can push this request for scrub to next week.

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Rob Halsell <rhalsell@wikimedia.org> wrote:
List Admins,

Please note that I'll be stopping mailman on 2016-06-21 from 16:00 to 18:00 UTC for some privacy scrubbing of list archives.

Unfortunately, mailman has to be stopped to prevent corruption during the archive rebuild for the affected list(s).  I hope not to use the full 2 hour window, but cannot be certain.

Once the work ends and mailman is restarted, all unsent/queued messages will be processed for delivery.

Work is documented on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138228

Thanks,

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