Hi,

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Daniel Zahn <dz...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> the last time we had to rebuild archives was about 2 weeks ago.
> Unfortunately this is a major drawback of removing messages from
> archives as you pointed out and we are aware of it. We had a thread
> there though that contained private information and we also did not
> want to refuse the request of the person affected to remove their
> data. A subsequent request that followed shortly after was actually
> rejected for this very reason. In the future such requests will more
> likely rejected and if unavoidable we will just XXX out information
> instead of removing complete threads to avoid this from happening
> again. Everybody on this list please be extra careful about posting
> private information to a public list you might regret in the future.
> Sorry for breaking links, we are aware URLs should never change if at
> all possible.

Thank you for the explanation, Daniel.

-- 
Guillaume Paumier

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