* Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [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 $150/hour for removing from mail archives. > Payment in advance, by paypal, based on an estimate. > There will be a minimum billing unit, nextgens suggests 1 hour, I suggest 15 > minutes. > There is no warranty provided, but IMHO if we miss something after taking > payment and it is pointed out, we should fix it for free. Make it up to them to tell us which URL they want to be brought down. > IMHO developers should not qualify. > > Agreed? Do we need a lawyer-approved contract text? And why wouldn't developers qualify exactly? You want to do it as a favour to some random-guy who posted once on the mailing lists 10 years ago, but not to developers? I fail to see the logic here. If it was up to me the response would be "No Way". If only for the sake of the archive's consistency. NextGen$ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090612/be0821f1/attachment.pgp>
