Tom Lane wrote:
> Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> >> Altogether that page now reads like, our archiving system is too stupid to
> >> handle removals and we are too busy to bother. �Not sure if that will serve to
> >> convince people. �"Extremely difficult" is after all the same as "possible".
>
> > Well that is essentially correct :-) Any suggestions for alternative text?
>
> The really key point is the one about there being many copies of our
> archives that we have no control over, so asking us to remove our
> copy accomplishes nothing worth the complainant's trouble. The rest is
> unlikely to deter anyone.
Complainant is of course free to pursue removal from the mirror
archives; and ours being the primary source, I think it's fair to say
that we agreeing that it should be removed makes it easier for them to
get them removed from the other sources.
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