* Matthew Toseland <[email protected]> [2009-06-12 23:24:01]:

> People sometimes write to me asking to be removed from mailing list archives, 
> usually to make themselves look better on Google.
> 
> At the moment, removing from our archives involves quite a bit of work, and 
> an index rebuild (archives offline for 6 hours). However in the near future 
> we will get rid of emu, and it will be a matter of sending an email to the 
> external archive host, checking before/after, finding the messages, and 
> verifying that they are gone. In any case it can be quite disruptive.
> 

That's the simple case; What if you prune their emails, emu crashes and
you restore some older backups?

> Ian has proposed the following policy:
> We charge $150/hour for removing from mail archives.
> Payment in advance, by paypal, based on an estimate.
> There will be a minimum billing unit, nextgens suggests 1 hour, I suggest 15 
> minutes.
> There is no warranty provided, but IMHO if we miss something after taking 
> payment and it is pointed out, we should fix it for free.

Make it up to them to tell us which URL they want to be brought down.

> IMHO developers should not qualify.
> 
> Agreed? Do we need a lawyer-approved contract text?

And why wouldn't developers qualify exactly? You want to do it as a
favour to some random-guy who posted once on the mailing lists 10 years
ago, but not to developers? I fail to see the logic here.

If it was up to me the response would be "No Way". If only for the sake
of the archive's consistency.

NextGen$

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