Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:54:39AM +1000, Pascal Hakim wrote: > > Ideally we'd remove that stuff from our archives, but I'm > > unwilling to do so if it means that URLs to messages in our mail > > archive changes. > > Does it? If so, that would sound like a bug in the used archive software > to me. No? Perhaps not a bug but it might possibly not be a feature either. But instead of removing them and having the message numbering change it might be better to replace the original with a null message which effectively said nothing more than "spam deleted". That should satisfy the problem of keeping message numbering the same and also stop google from page ranking it such that it gets all of the hits from music enthusiasts. However, it would open up a can of worms about people who want to have their mail deleted from the archives. Right now I think the answer to that is a no, and rightly so. A clear policy should be published. Bob
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