On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Jason Schulz JSchulz_4587@msn.com wrote:
When people know that rev X was removed at time Y, trolls go to the old xml dumps, find, and post the content, as I believe has happened in the past. It's much easier to do that with a public log.
As it was pointed out— the bitfields feature leaves the timestamps in the history.
Even ignoring that— If anyone wants it I'd be glad to send them a small easy to use python program that takes two XML dumps and produces a file including only the revisions existent in the first but missing in the second.
(The best way to address the underlying concern there is to never dump a revision less than 1 (2?) week(s) old— that should be easy add in the new dump system and would at least produce a time window where we can remove things before they hit the dumps.
But even that is far from foolproof: it's pretty easy to make a program that simple reads every revision as it comes in... Many people have done it before. I doubt the extra line of code to save the revisions will kill anyone.