Re: Remove or obfuscate spam in the *-bugs mailing lists?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org>]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 07:21:16PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>On Tue, 9 Sep 2014, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> Is there a reason to keep bread crumbs in the archive or is it ok 
>> to just eliminate any bug marked as spam?  I intend to do this
>> retroactively so that if a bug is marked as spam older messages 
>> will also be munged/removed.
>
>In general "We have a strong policy of not editing the web archives"
>( from https://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html ).

Right.  There are similar words in sourceware.org/lists.html (which I
may have even written).  It's usually pointless to edit the archives
because the information eventually leaks out to the interwebs.  That +
it could become a full-time job to tweak the archives.

But, it really bugs me that some evil dudes could try to subvert our
system so I'd like to eliminate any remaining benefit they could see
from sending spam here.

>In a crazy situation like this, I believe it's the right thing for 
>us to do, however, and you have my full support.

Thanks.  Which option do you prefer: Deleting or keeping munged,
content-free copies around?  The only reason that I could see for the
latter is that existing url references to the archives would continue to
work.  But, it's difficult to see any valid reason for a reference to
bugzilla spam.

Nevertheless, I'm willing to do either.  If no one objects, I'll do
the deletion.  Otherwise, I'll just nuke content and subjects.

cgf