Hi,
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Daniel Zahn dzahn@wikimedia.org wrote:
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.
Thank you for the explanation, Daniel.