Re: Archives policy

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> Dave Page wrote:
>
>> OK, well I've removed the bit about removing illegal/unwanted
>> material. FWIW, we *will* remove such unwanted content, otherwise we
>> could easily become an online archive for pr0n/warez etc. which will
>> certainly not do our reputation any good.
>
> Now that you've hashed that out, would you explain *how* would you
> actually remove the posts? It requires editing the majordomo archive
> store, but I don't think many people has access to that ... I know I
> don't for one (and I keep wondering why, seeing how I am the de facto
> archives maintainer).

All list owners can delete messagse from their archives ... its built into
Mj2:

from 'help archive' which fully explains and examples teh
'archive-delete' option:

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archive-delete[-hidden][-force] listname date_count_number
archive-get[-immediate][-hidden] listname date_count_number
archive-get-digest[-mime][-hidden] listname date_count_number
archive-index[-hidden] listname date_count_number
archive-part-delete listname message_number part_number
archive-part-edit listname message_number part_number
archive-part-get[-clean] listname message_number part_number
archive-stats[-hidden] listname date_count_number
archive-summary listname
archive-sync listname pattern
archive-part-replace listname message_number part_number <<ENDTAG
[New Contents]
ENDTAG
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date_count_number, if specified, indicates one or more messages
listname, required, is the name of a mailing list
message_number, if specified, indicates a single message
part_number, if specified, refers to a portion of a message
pattern, if specified, indicates the names of files
-clean, if specified, removes dangerous portions of an HTML part
-delete, if specified, causes messages to be removed from the archive
-digest, if specified, causes messages to be mailed in digests
-edit, if specified, allows part of a posted message to be changed
-force, if specified, removes messages which await digest delivery
-get, if specified, causes whole messages to be displayed
-hidden, if specified, displays only hidden messages (admins only)
-immediate, if specified, displays messages without pretty formatting
-index, if specified, displays a summary of each message
-mime, if specified, causes digests to be mailed in "mime" format
-part, if specified, causes part of a posted message to be displayed
-replace, if specified, replaces part of a message with new contents
-stats, if specified, displays per-user statistics
-summary, if specified, lists archive files and their contents
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