On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 01:26:00 -0400, Daniel Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 01:34:32AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: >>> However, pulling that message from the list archives may be a good >>> idea. It's what Ava Driscoll asked for, and the big HTML links >>> sure don't look good on the Debian pages. >> >> Debian is not in the habit of editing its history (mailing list >> archives). Don't start down that slope. > So we have to keep the spam? Is that really part of the history? I think so. It shall help if someone tries to collect statistics on spam occurrence on the lists at a later date. > (I suppose that people occasionally reply to spam sent to debian > lists, and some of the resulting conversation is amusing, so > perhaps) That too. > So does anyone feel like running spamassassin retroactively over old > mailing list archives, manually checking the results, and coming up > with a list of stuff to wipe out? Short of an exercise like that, I > guess I can see where removing this spam could be something that > would get pushed later. I would much rather we did not revise history based on what we consider acceptable messages to the mailing list. manoj -- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Salvor Hardin Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C