From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4987 invoked by alias); 9 Sep 2014 17:21:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 4978 invoked by uid 89); 9 Sep 2014 17:21:26 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: ainaz.pair.com Received: from ainaz.pair.com (HELO ainaz.pair.com) (209.68.2.66) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:21:20 +0000 Received: from tuna.dhcp.nue.suse.com (nat.nue.novell.com [195.135.221.2]) by ainaz.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4B1FD3F41D for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 13:21:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:21:00 -0000 From: Gerald Pfeifer To: overseers@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Remove or obfuscate spam in the *-bugs mailing lists? In-Reply-To: <20140909162820.GA3335@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Message-ID: References: <20140909162820.GA3335@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2014-q3/txt/msg00148.txt.bz2 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 ). In a crazy situation like this, I believe it's the right thing for us to do, however, and you have my full support. Thank you, Gerald