From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26765 invoked by alias); 26 Jan 2003 09:50:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 26752 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2003 09:50:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO foam.wonderslug.com) (64.81.66.25) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 26 Jan 2003 09:50:19 -0000 Received: by foam.wonderslug.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 13C95D0094; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 01:45:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from foam.wonderslug.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by foam.wonderslug.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0585ACFCED; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 01:45:15 -0800 (PST) To: Christopher Faylor Cc: overseers@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [ack94598@yahoo.com: [postmaster@sources.redhat.com] please get rid of my email addreess from your publicly readable archive] In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 26 Jan 2003 00:22:54 EST. <20030126052254.GC1122@redhat.com> Reply-To: angela@wonderslug.com Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 09:50:00 -0000 From: Angela Marie Thomas Message-Id: <20030126094515.13C95D0094@foam.wonderslug.com> X-SW-Source: 2003-q1/txt/msg00208.txt.bz2 > I know I keep asking this question, and I really don't want to take any > of my personal time to do something like this but the requests are on > the rise. Some people are even making legal threats to Red Hat over > this issue. You can reduce Red Hat liability by ensuring the initial "welcome to this list mail" let's them know the risks. At some point, the auto-munging will no longer work so warning folks ahead of time may save some aggravation later. WRT the actual request, if there's no easy way to post-munge old archives, you could make the archives unavailable without a username/password (often just simple .htaccess passwd auth with the username/passwd in the login prompt). Downside is this kills having the archives in search engines. Upside is you shouldn't have to deal with these requests. --Angela