On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Guillaume Paumier gpaumier@wikimedia.org wrote:
I was told yesterday that the mailman/pipermail archives were broken, in that permalinks were no longer linking to the messages they used to link to (therefore not being "permalinks" at all).\
Hi Guillaume,
the last time we had to rebuild archives was about 2 weeks ago. Unfortunately this is a major drawback of removing messages from archives as you pointed out and we are aware of it. We had a thread there though that contained private information and we also did not want to refuse the request of the person affected to remove their data. A subsequent request that followed shortly after was actually rejected for this very reason. In the future such requests will more likely rejected and if unavoidable we will just XXX out information instead of removing complete threads to avoid this from happening again. Everybody on this list please be extra careful about posting private information to a public list you might regret in the future. Sorry for breaking links, we are aware URLs should never change if at all possible.
reference ticket is RT-3281