On Dec 5, 2004, at 3:36 PM, Evan Prodromou wrote:
On Sat, 2004-04-12 at 08:59 -0800, Brion Vibber
wrote:
The chief reason to be deleting something (as
opposed to redirecting
it
to a more appropriate article or replacing it with a better one) is
that it includes copyrighted material that we don't have permission to
distribute. This necessitates not being able to have _just anybody_
come along and view or undelete it.
Technically, it's probably not that kosher even to make the works
available to admins.
They're "available" only in the same way that you can scrounge things
out of the trash bin before it's emptied.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)