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From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
To: Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>
Cc: overseers@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [postmaster@sources.redhat.com] REQUEST: REMOVE THIS MESSAGE FROM THE INTERNET RE: Christine Datian
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 08:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.53.0304281041360.10640@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EACC583.3020706@bothner.com>

On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Per Bothner wrote:
> My suggestion: $100 payable in advance to remove a message from
> the archives.  The message is: You did something dumb, but we're
> willing to help you cover your ass.  However, it's an inconvenience
> for us, so we expect compensation.  Rather like a bounced check fee.
> $100 is enough to get the message across.  Anything more might be
> viewed as extortionate.  $50 might be reasonable as well, depending
> on how much work is involved.

I like this idea very much, though I'm not sure how the FSF will react
if we apply this on the gcc.gnu.org side; I could foresee problems there.

(For sources.redhat.com archives it certainly looks fine, though a
donation to the FSF or similarly would be preferrable.)

Gerald
-- 
Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry)   gerald@pfeifer.com   http://www.pfeifer.com/gerald/

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-28  8:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <20030427002446.GA19369@redhat.com>
     [not found]   ` <000b01c30c92$ad7b3fc0$0200a8c0@lvcm.com>
2003-04-28  5:32     ` postmaster
2003-04-28  6:09       ` Per Bothner
2003-04-28  8:48         ` Gerald Pfeifer [this message]
2003-04-28 15:05         ` Christopher Faylor
2003-04-28 15:20           ` Christopher Faylor
2003-04-28 16:17             ` Gerald Pfeifer

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