m ike wrote: > > The list masters, in these cases, have cited their standard practice of > > leaving the archive intact > > if it is the standard, or even if it isn't, the policy baffles me. > > The second entry the FAQ for the wayback machine is "how can i remove > my site's pages" > > http://www.archive.org/about/faqs.php
The wayback machine is not a mailing list archive. So I don't see how that applies at all. Could you imagine going through a transcript, but one person's comments had been elided. This is what we are talking about; removing a participants input. It can throw off an entire thread. People that run mailing list archives are interested usually in maintaining a pristine copy of the traffic. Most don't consider spam that makes it to the list to be legitimate traffic, though. I find it more baffling when a mailing list archive maintainer removes (non-spam) messages without a court order. That's me, because I see the value in the pristine copy. This is another reason why I tend to keep complete archives myself. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
