In a message of Wed, 21 Oct 2015 00:09:18 +1100, "Steven D'Aprano" writes: >On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 03:28 am, Laura Creighton wrote: > >> Actually, this one was part of a huge set of defaming articles sent a >> year ago we were requested to remove, and did. European Law may >> require us to do so. I checked, and this article wasn't one on >> our list, which is why we missed this one.
>Today we're removing allegedly defaming posts because European law may or >may not apply (probably doesn't); tomorrow we're removing posts because >they fall foul of unreasonable laws anywhere in the world. No, we are removing them because we want to. >The point is, obeying laws that don't apply, even if well-meaning, opens us >to a dangerous precedent that we shouldn't go near. Pointedly not doing something you want to because it might make us obedient to some law we don't have to obey seems a matter of cutting off ones nose to spite one's face. >There's another reason to try very, very hard to avoid deleting archived >posts: until such time as python.org moves to Mailman3, deleting a single >posts breaks the permalinks for *every single post* for the entire month. No, I think we were smarter than that in the script. >Steven Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list