On 15 August 2012 21:38, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
One question: you said you won't agree to the
"mass-deletion of content",
does that mean you are deleting some content, just not a large amount? The
arguments you make apply to small amounts of content just add much as they
do large amounts.
Listmods don't actually have the power to delete messages - it's
something a dev with shell access to the list server has to do.
Mailman's archiving is sort of fragile and rubbish as well, so a
slip-up can risk breaking all the hundreds of lists in ways that make
the devs very unhappy - and making the devs unhappy is a hazardous
occupation.
So making the request had better be pretty serious stuff *and*
actually effectively address whatever the problem is. If the problem
is "I've just outed myself", removing a post from the archive does
*bugger-all* to suppress it in any meaningful way whatsoever. It'd be
nice if it did, but it *actually doesn't*.
I wouldn't say "never ever" on removal of messages from the archive,
but it's on the list of things the listmods and WMF staff really,
really aren't keen to do without a stupendously compelling reason.
- d.