Re: Archives policy

"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Dave Page wrote:
>> Yeah, thanks for raising that! If we catch inappropriate messages almost 
>> immediately, it should just be a case of stopping mhonarc from running 
>> and deleting the messages from the mbox file. If they've been there are 
>> while (and renumbering messages will be a problem)

> Isn't that why Alvaro(?) went through all that work getting it so that we 
> could reference messages by MessageID?  To remove the worry concerning 
> renumbering?

No, because all the internal links are still by message number, as are
uncountably many bookmarks and search engine entries that are outside
our control.  What Alvaro did is a convenience for some cases where you
have the message in your own mailbox and want to produce an archive
URL for it easily.

I agree that the correct way to handle such a situation is to replace
the message body with "Deleted by request of poster" or something
like that.
        regards, tom lane