Well, I think there's a point where it goes from being a dick to just
not bending over backwards to comply with unreasonable requests. I
think this is a case of the latter.
Mark
2008/4/28 Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
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David Gerard wrote:
2008/4/28 Mark Williamson
<node.ue(a)gmail.com>om>:
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.
Most requests go like this:
"I sent a mail to the list (accidentally instead of offlist / forgetting
about my default work email signature) and it includes my (real name /
private phone number / address) which I don't want on the internet, can
you please remove it from the archives so it's not the top Google hit
forever?"
We may scoff and roll our eyes and say "If you don't want it on Google,
don't post it on a public list!" but the point is they *didn't* intend
to publish it. Refusing to remove them on principle violates the "don't
be a dick" rule, from which all other ethical principles can be
logically derived.
So, I'm stuck at refusing to remove them most of the time because it's a
very disruptive operation, and doing annoying things to the search to
reduce the "Google signature" of the mails still floating in the archive.
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?
Hypothetically, if someone develops it (or can find an existing patch to
mailman).
- -- brion
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