2008/4/28 Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com:
My general view on this is that if somebody sends an e-mail, that is their problem. If they don't want their employer to find it, they should have thought of that before they sent it.
People occasionally slip up horribly. But almost all requests for message removal I've *ever* seen are specious.
As for the search - we have lots of experience with that rather nice Lucene search thing. Can anything usable be done with that on mail.wikimedia.org without crippling the box?
- d.